Copyright

In the article "The Right to Die", Patrick Nowell-Smith addresses the moral issue of euthanasia. He discusses the idea of its legalization in order to give people the right to choose if, how and when they want to die, in the same manner that they have the right to live. The general purpose of this article is to advance and promote the grounds for legalizing euthanasia within the Canadian realm. Nowell-Smith introduces the argument by dividing it into two reoccurring…...

Intellectual property relies on the control impulse and the political dynamics created by this impulse are detrimental to cultural change. “Intellectual property allows people to own the products of their creativity – ensuring, crucially, that there is something to be sold – and therefore to exercise both economic and moral rights over these products” . The assumption of copyright law is that an individual author exists. This postulation takes up the issues of authorship. U. S. copyright law is greatly…...

In this essay I want to examine to what extent the main protagonist of The Magician of Lublin, Yasha Mazur, struggles with the ethical values of the Jewish religion, reluctantly being a Jew himself, and the final acceptance and embrace of his forefather's heritage. These values, as Gabriner has shown us in this course on American Jewish literature, permeate the Jewish culture and hence the work of the authors we have read and discussed. After a summary of the novel's…...

Copyrights are used to protect a wide variety of works and have developed vigorously since its beginning as a very important intellectual property right. Copyright has a pragmatic approach and it extends to a wide range of works regardless of quality, subject to some basic requirements which are usually satisfied. Copyright law protects computer software, whether it be computer programs, computer files, printed documents or databases. Current issues concern the scope of protection, for example whether it is permissible to…...

Ellen will use some copyrighted illustrations from her books on the Website. She will also include themes from the story lines of her books in some of the games that will be available (free) on the site to registered visitors. What are at least two intellectual property issues that might arise in the operation of the website? The first intellectual issue in the operation of the website will be in relation to the copyrighted illustration and contents which will be…...

We are well into the year of 2011 and technology is continuing to advance and a faster and faster rate. As technology advances there continues to be more of an opportunity for things to go wrong. The ability of our society to obtain information has been becoming as easy as it has ever been. I simple line into the google search bar and you are looking at millions upon millions of lings and opportunities to attain information. With this source…...

A Copyright it the sole privilege of the owner to duplicate or allow someone else to duplicate their work. Items that can be copyrighted are anything that one creates including but not limited to literary work such as articles, stories and even computer programs. Along with any graphics, pictures, music, song lyrics, screenplays and movies can also be copyrighted by their owner or creator. If there is a question if something is copyrighted it more than likely is copyrighted and…...

What are the rules and why are they so important? Everyone poses this question regularly. The answer is simple – they are needed to impose regulation in the society and allows to avoid chaos in everything start from the minor thing and ending with the more global ones. This is the most general explanation; however, it covers only the surface of the notion of a “rule.” This concept is much more complicated than it may seem at first glance. So,…...

Physical resources Within physical resources there are many points which must be taken into account to ensure a business is at its peak, these include things such as materials, waste, insurance, equipment including ICT, buildings and facilities, planned maintenance and refurbishment, security, plant and machinery. These particular resources are what help maintain physically the resources in a business. Materials Materials are regularly used within workplaces this is to help encourage new customers from making the shops attractive encouraging customer participation.…...

1. Do you think that the international business community is being too lax about the abuse of intellectual property right? Are international companies simply afraid to speak out for fear of jeopardizing access to attractive markets? In our opinion, the international business community is not being too lax about the abuse of intellectual property right. It is because there is a great incentive to abuse intellectual property rights since it provided legal right to the inventor of the product. Those…...