Copyright Law Reports Samples For Students

Intellectual property: A Summary

Unlike tangible property, intellectual property is more complicated in terms of ownership and possession. With regard to such complexity, the legal frameworks in place have come up with various provisions aimed at protecting the ownership and exclusive rights of such property. For purposes of such protection, intellectual property is divided into: copyrights, patents, trademarks, and registered designs. Contrary to common misconception, a single product can be protected under all these types. For instance, an iPhone, a product of Apple Inc, can have the company control its distribution and enhancement by use of patents, copyrights, registered designs and trademarks. Typically, patents are ...

Oscorp Limited, a Chinese Company, and Quazi Designs, a United Kingdom based company, entered an agreement that provided for their collaboration in widget designing. The joint venture arose due to both companies recognition of the benefits arising from such cooperation. Due to its long experience in the designing of widgets, Quazi will undertake all the design work and review Oscorp projects to provide suggestions for their improvements. Oscorp in its part would undertake the fabrication of widgets per designs provided by Quazi. While the designs will remain the intellectual property of Quazi, both parties have to agree on the commercial exploitation ...

Introduction:

Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) are a critical element of the digital economy as a foundation for innovation. Because of this they are one of the initial key elements of society since the Statute of Arnie in 1709 and one of the guarantees written into the American Constitution in 1776. The Bern Convention in Switzerland in 1886 came to an international agreement that governs copyright and formed and international league of subscriber countries that mutually respect each other’s copyright laws.
Very little changed in how media disseminated Intellectual Property for the first 200 years after the Statute of Arnie. The ...

Background and purpose

How will it be if one day you wake up and realize that somebody in a particular place producing and selling a product that is identical to yours? Just think of such a scenario. But then, what will you do next? The essay shall majorly dwell on what exactly intellectual property rights are and more specifically industrial design rights that individual as well as organizations have and what one can do in a situation where such rights have been maliciously violated. The topic on property is broad and wide. However, the essay shall as much as possible concentrate on industrial design rights that ...

Introduction: the case

According to Geiger (2013), a copyright arises when an individual or a company makes a work. The work is only subject to copyright protection only if regarded as original. The work must be evidence by a degree of skill, labor or judgment. Howard has added descriptions to the collection of photographs that were passed down to his father from his grandfather and eventually to him. The photographs of several sea vessels were taken by his grandfather and passed to Howard’s father when his grandfather died. In addition to adding descriptions to the photographs, Howard has added five paintings depicting gods of the ...

The advent of the digital age has brought along new business processes and technology that run organizations. Globalization has since taken root in concepts of products development and service delivery and thus companies are able to have operations in almost every corner of the world. Nations are now able to take advantage of such worldwide business opportunities in order to increase profits and revenue. However, this global nature of business has brought along its fair share of problems. There is new wave of competition in the market by companies consistently innovating new products to meet consumer needs. This cut-throat ...

Introduction

Digital archiving and preservation ensures that digital content remains in a format that is usable and accessible both in the present period and in the future. In the context of an organization, digital preservation is a process that involves planning, resourcing, and actual archiving using relevant technologies and applications. In the case of an institutional repository as this university, it is necessary to have policies and regulations that would guide the digital archiving and preservation program. Such policies would serve as a guide for the program while setting out its objectives. It is therefore necessary to have an evaluation ...

Executive Summary

The modern film industry contributes significantly to the GDP growth of countries like United States, China, Japan, and India. This industry also employs tens of thousands of people worldwide. Despite the growing popularity of the film industry, film piracy (particularly the web-based film piracy) poses potential threats to the future growth this industry. The widespread use of internet worldwide increases the industry’s vulnerability to piracy issues because any person can upload/share videos on the internet from any part of the globe. It is not practical to prevent people from downloading/watching pirated movies on the internet due to the ...

PART A

The works in question
Scenting Ltd sells perfumes and toiletries for both men and women which smell like other expensive brands. The company’s products bear writing on them indicating that they “smell like” an expensive brand. For example one of their products, “Dawn” smells like “Naissance” which is produced by a French company called Chic SARL. “Dawn’s” packaging has words indicating that the company’s testers differentiate between “Dawn” and “Naissance”. When the Chic SARL Company moves to court on copyright infringement grounds, Scenting Ltd maintains that there is no copyright infringement. This is a summary of the ...

BODY4

Methodology.4
Literature review5
Importance of Network Safety to Business5
Attacks to Beware and Stay Alert to..6

Businesses Largely Preferred by Cyber Criminals.7

Damage and Fiscal Losses as a Reason to Consider Network Security worth Adopting10
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR COMPANIES TO CONSIDER AND THAT IMMEDIATELY.12
REFERENCES14
Introductory Remarks
Besides its heavily advertised advantage of connecting people, the internet does connect criminals to them. Recent decades have seen numerous internet-associated gadgets, systems, and services emerge like email, smartphones, computers, social media, websites, and cloud-based services actively applied in the business environment these days. Unfortunately to all, there have always been ...

Trademarks are some of the many intellectual property rights that are protected under the UK property rights law. Specifically, trademarks are governed under the Trademarks directive. In the case at hand, L’Oreal v Bellure, who is the defendant produced fragrances that were similar in smell to those of the plaintiff Chic SARL who made expensive fragrances for the high-end markets. Loreals fragrances were however marketed in the low end markets and cut chemists so as to appeal to the low income earners. The intention of loreal was to ensure that her products appeared like expensive brands so as ...

The MIT Software’s copyright terms grant a free of charge permission to the person obtaining its copy and its associated document files the liberty to deal with the Software without any restriction/limitations of the rights to distribute, publish, modify, copy, sell or sublicense the Software. It also permits the persons to whom it is furnished to do so on the condition that; first, the permission notice and the copyright notice shall be included in every copy or the substantial portions of the Software (Epstein & Politano, 2012). Secondly, the provision of the software is tagged “as is”, with no ...

The case we are presented with is the Community for Non-Violence vs. Reid,490 U.S. 730 (1989) in which the Community for Non-Violence in its form as an organization dedicated to the elimination of homelessness. With one of its trustees the company was engaged in an oral agreement with Reid who is a sculptor with the agreement based the production of a statue that represents the dramatization of the plight of the homeless. This statue was to be displayed at a Christmas pageant in Washington with Reid working on the statue at his Baltimore studio with several visitors from the Community for ...

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What Cyber Espionage Groups Steal from the United States

Anything that could give United States rivals a competitive edge against the country can be stolen by cyber espionage groups. Among the things that are stolen are intellectual property, blueprints for technology concepts, and research and development advancements (Rogers, 2012). These are used to produce copies, or versions of products or develop ideas without the consent of the rightful owner of the products or the ideas. Furthermore, the people who own the rights do not receive any compensation for the use of their products or ideas.
Another thing stolen by the cyber espionage groups include merger ...

Abstract

The report focuses on the market analysis for Redbox Automated Retail, LLC. The company provides customers with Blu-ray, video game, and DVD rentals through a variety of automated retail kiosks/self-care kiosks located in various convenience, drug, and grocery stores. The main clienteles for the company include the gamers, family oriented renters, and youth renters. The company uses its different automated retail kiosks in meeting the customer demands of speed, cutting-edge technology, reasonable prices, new releases, and convenience. The environmental factors that affect the way Redbox Company conducts its business include the laws and regulations in the DVD, game, and ...

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT IN UK, SOUTH AFRICA, AND MEXICO

Business environment in UK, South Africa, and Mexico
Introduction
The purpose of this report is to analyze the business environment in South Africa and Mexico to help Gem Leathers Limited in establishing a joint venture. Also, the report will examine the issues of trademarks, trade secrets and patents in the U.K, Mexico, and South Africa.

Financial incentives
Mexico offers numerous incentives in various sectors with an aim of creating employment, improving infrastructure, enhancing productivity, and boosting exports. The Maquiladora is the most significant incentive that is offered to foreign companies in Mexico. The benefits of Maquiladora incentive include duty-free ...

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2.7 Network Access Policy

Overview

Network access is essential to company’s workflow. However, sometimes an access originates from a network that may be compromised. A part of World-Wide Trading Company (WWTC) policy is to mitigate the external threats and protect the data integrity of the company.

Purpose

The purpose and intention of this policy is to define regulations for accessing the WWTC network, using the network, intellectual property and using secure passwords. The policy also defines sanctions in the event of a violation of the policy.

Scope

This policy ...

INTRODUCTION

Rio Tinto is a combination of predecessor companies formed by investors in 1873 and 1905. Due to such an extensive knowledge and experience in the mining industry, the organization is regarded as one of the finest and leading global mining and metal company. Being a global mining and metal company, the organization focuses highly on the exploration and processing of Earth’s finest mineral resources with an aim to maximize the shareholder’s value. In order to do so, the organization has the right people for the job and resources to provide the world with minerals and metals. Some of the ...

Tencent Holdings:

Company Background:
Following is the company background of Tencent (About Tencent, 2016).
1. Brief company description:
Tencent Holdings Limited is a Chinese company which is publicly owned and has subsidiaries. Its subsidiaries provide Internet and mobile phone value-added services and operate online advertising services in China. Many services of Tencent's holding include social networks, web portals, e-commerce, and multiplayer online games. Tencent holdings run one of the largest web portals in China, QQ.com and operate the well-known instant messenger Tencent QQ (In.reuters.com, 2016).

SWOT analysis of Tencent

Strength of Tencent
Strength based on platform: Tencent is one of the oldest Internet corporations in ...

Management Issues and Challenges Faced by UNICEF UK

I hereby attest that I am the sole owner and author of this report and that to the best of my knowledge, this report has not infringed on anyone’s copyright. Credit for any ideas, quotations, and other scholarly materials used to develop this report has been given to the owners of the scholarly sources used in accordance to the rules of the Harvard referencing system.

Executive Summary

UNICEF UK is a renowned international humanitarian organization whose operations have impacted on millions of children. The organization’s slow response to crises outside of the UK has placed it under immense scrutiny in ...

For many dictionaries, word “Geek” simply means a person with an obsessive interest in a particular subject or topic. It is a slang term used to denote an uninteresting person. The person is hence, considered as unconventional or non-mainstream having only one interest or hobby. It contains a negative connotation as a “geek” is necessarily an unwanted or dislikable individual particularly, one identified as excessively intellectual. However, there are many other meanings and definitions to this word, which have evolved out with the passage of time. For instance, it also means a human being who is considered as an expert in a specific field or subject.

History

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Objectives/Aims

1) The aim of the experiment was to scrutinize food samples for the presence of microorganisms using the Australian Standard (AS) techniques to establish quality and safety of food produce for consumption.
2) The experiment is also aimed at comparing standard and new techniques of food sampling. This will assist in establishing the most efficient, convenient, cheap, reliable, sensitive and easy to use technique in analyzing food samples for the presence of microbial organisms.

Introduction

Microbial organisms in food can either be useful or poisonous if consumed. For years now, microorganisms have been used in the ...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, also known as TPP constitutes of twelve nations lying on the Pacific Rim, which include the United States, Australia, Canada, Brunei, Japan, Chile, Mexico, Malaysia, Peru, New Zealand, Singapore and Vietnam . These countries account for over 40 percent of the economic output across the globe and 26 percent of the world trade. One of the major advantages of the TPP is removing tariff as well as non-tariff barriers to investment and trade and investment among the participant countries. Furthermore, the TPP streamlines the regulations, thereby implementing common standards and safeguards of intellectual property and foreign direct ...

The Globalization Effect

The Globalization Effect

Political and Economic Overview

Located on Africa’s southeastern coast, Mozambique is a picturesque country with abundant natural resources, a diverse population, a rich cultural heritage, and a troubled political history. The former European colony underwent a period of turbulent political and economic change during the latter half of the 20th century. As Guilengue (2015, para. 2) asserts, the phases began with a decade-long struggle to gain its independence from Portugal in 1975. Mozambique continued its political transformation, going from a one-party state system (1975-1992) to its current multiparty democratic system (Guilengue, 2015, para. 2). During this transitional period, the ...

It is a set of methods used to ascertain the numerical value of a definite integral. In other words, it can also be said that it is a method to find out the area inscribed within a given curve with definite end points. [1] There are many methods to determine the area within a continuous function with definite end points. The simplest example is the division of the area into small rectangles, determining the area of rectangles and then integrating all the areas together to determine a resultant area. But the margin of error is huge in this method. This can be minimized by the ‘ ...

A few decades ago the world entered into the era of computer technologies and information flow that are available for the majority of the population. Those things that were considered unique and rare became common and are used by everyone. Therefore, this provoked high demand for workers of the information technology sector who are responsible for creation of novelty and further development. However, computer use is subject to ethical rules, violation of which is punished by the law of all the developed and developing countries.
Computer ethics is defined as “any research activity that touches on right and ...

Introduction

The report is a discussion on Egypt’s current political influences on my business of exporting gypsum boards from Canada to Egypt. As can be learnt from Central Intelligence Agency website, Egypt has a republican form of Government that is guided through a new constitution affirmed most recently through a nation-wide referendum. The interim head of the Republic is currently President Adly MANSOUR following the Republic’s military ousting of Mohammed MURSI from the presidential helm in the mid of July 2013. On the same note, Prime Minister Hazem el-BEBLAWI holds the interim Government leadership position as the next elections schedule falls on ...

If Women Counted

Summary
While the work done by men outside the home is always acknowledged and included in the productivity figures of the economy, the contribution of women is always neglected and not cared for. Many economists have termed the neglect of women in the global economic activity as a sexist outrage that needs to be corrected. According to some analysts, neglecting the contribution of women to the society is equal to neglecting the intellectual property of a corporate entity. In both the developed and developing countries, a number of transactions are removed from the active economy and are do not involve any ...

United Arab Emirates

Executive summary
This is a comprehensive analysis of the United Arab Emirates in which the company hopes to expand its international operations. The analysis gives an in-depth discussion of the country's macro environment by describing its level of development, important industries, infrastructure, its history of inward foreign investments and significant industries available within its borders. Also discussed in the report are the country's economic ties with other nations, its political situation and the legislation that might affect inward foreign investments including government subsidies, tariffs, intellectual property protection and informal trade barriers.
The company intends to set up foreign ...

Introduction The National Innovation System signifies the aspects of technology and data among individuals, industries and also Companies. This is the key towards the creative process on the national level. In the respect of the development hypothesis, technology and innovation improvement are the outcomes of a complex set of connections among the main actors in the industry. These actors incorporate industries, colleges and government research centers. Organizational culture is the conduct of people who are referred to as the crucial part of the association, and even the implications that the individuals respond to their activities.
The organizational culture incorporates ...

An ‘English as a Second Language’ Collection for

Brisbane City Council Library Services
Collection Development for Library Services and Course Number
3. Initial ESL Collection Development
The “Success in Reading English: An ‘English as a Second Language’ Collection for Brisbane City Council Library Services (BCCLS)” is our group proposed library collection project. As part of the detailed overview and discussion of the library and information services, the context in which we anchor our initial ESL collection development is at the city of Brisbane Queensland, primarily; and secondarily, the online community. Brisbane, as Australia’s largest local government, has to serve its more than two million ...

The Name of Professor

It`s time to get to know how does the music industry work and how every musician, producer and manager feels himself in the industry – how he earns his money, how he works, how he is protected by law and what are his perspectives in such career. We`ve got four different scenarios that we should describe, and we should give as many details as possible.
The first one to describe is a singer and/or a songwriter, who is not signed to any label. He performs his songs live, and his songs are sometimes played on the local radio. It` ...

Business Plan[Name of the Student]

Introduction 4

1. Overview 4
2. Trend 4
3. Size and Potential 5
5. Competition 6
6. Customers 6
7. Analytical Tool 7

Market Strategy 8

1. Objective 8
2. 4Ps 8

Organization Management 9

1. Management Overview 9
2. Staff Requirement 9

Production and Operation 10

1. Premise 10
2. Plant and Equipment 10
3. Operation Overview 11

Costing and Financing 11

Financial Assumption 11
Executive Summary
In the present world, it is not easy to launch and run a business, even if it is business related to manufacturing. It requires constant tenacity, hard work, and continuity to work with various uncertainties. ...

Accounting

PESTEL ANALYSIS FOR THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY
Political
- Cable television industry is impacted by government regulation.
- Government regulate business conduct to avoid monopoly
- Government eliminated laws that permit own subscription fee.
- Ruling authority fluctuations within the industry.
- Consolidation within the industry has placed a great problem for the company.
- International regulation make it hard for American company to expand e.g. European countries
- Foreign ‘block’ policies e.g. in Asian countries. This has an effect of causing the company to incur extra advertising charges as it thrives ...

1.0 Introduction
Market entry strategy refers to strategic technique of distributing goods or services to the target market and distributing them there. In decision making so as to choose among selections of strategies, the key aspects to consider are the degree of risk involved, the ability to achieve the objective and the attitude in the target markets (Neelankavil and Rai 2009). Neelankavil and Rai (2009) reveals three major issues an organization will face when it has decided to go international are, marketing which involves considering the countries, segments, management and implementation efforts, and the mode of entrance-with intermediaries ...

Report on Current Trends in Information Security

The internet is termed as a revolutionary change in respect with the technological and societal changes it has brought about. The ease of access and exchange of information has become a phenomenon that is replacing old concepts. Companies are outsourcing their services to companies located overseas through the internet. The place and time of working has been greatly impacted by the internet. People work from the comfort of their homes at any time of day and night possible through internet connectivity.
Through seamless exchange of information over the internet, security concerns have been raised. The three major information security areas ...

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Rick Clarkson, Attorney-at-Law
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Dear Mr. Clarkson:
RE: Intellectual Property Rights Law
I am Christianne Kelly, Office Manager of Italian Brothers, an Italian restaurant in Springville, NSW. I have been with the restaurant for about 15 years now and have witnessed its growth from its humble beginnings into what it is today. The owners of the restaurant are brothers Mark and Marco Esposito who have been in partnership in running the restaurant since 1981. Now on its 32nd year, Italian Brothers continue to be one of Australia's ...

Executive summary

The advancement of technology has seen many organizations ignore the traditional strategic approaches and embrace the new technological strategies. The digital music service company, Spotify Limited is not left behind because it uses technology in marketing its services. The company adopts the management theory in developing information technology strategies. The findings show how the company has used technology as a strategy tool, the e-business strategies adopted, and the ethical issues in the company information technology. Finally, the discussion gives three recommendations for Spotify Limited.

Introduction

Spotify Limited is a digital music service providing on-demand access to songs on phones, tablets, computers, and ...

e-Commerce: Global and Local Problems and Issues
Business and trade have undergone many transformations – from the olden method of bartering to exporting and importing to what is the current trend, that is, e-Commerce. Now considered the modern marketplace, Internet e-Commerce is a popular system of doing remote business deals, shopping, and buying and offering services. Improvements on how business deals are completed including business meetings and transactions can now be done over the internet regardless of the size and type of business one is engaged in ("What is e-Commerce", 2012). However, because transactions are mostly done online, it is ...

Luxembourg is a potent brand due to its geographic and historical position. It is mainly branded through the use of customer based brand equity through the personalization of communication and customization of its products and services. It has developed a “Made in Luxembourg” label to distinguish its products and services when exported abroad. Luxembourg also has the “Luxembourg for Business” (LfB) brand which establishes a corporate identity for Luxembourg as a “brand with a pro business reputation. This paper discusses the development and further improvement of Luxembourg’s country branding through the following brand management components: Building a strong brand; Brand positioning; Choosing brand elements to ...

The article by Robert Zoellick emphasizes on the importance of the World Bank as an instrument to “use finance to tackle global problems” and develop third world countries. Since its foundation the aim of the World Bank Group was to combat consequences of war and to provide assistance to the developing countries. Zoellick looks back at the history of the World Bank, mentioning challenges on the way of this institution. During the course of establishing of a free enterprise economy and the diffusion of private capital, the World Bank had not been only issuing loans, but fostering growth and overcoming ...

Introduction

An organizational culture of a particular society, institution or business usually determines the profitability and the efficiency of that institution in achieving success. This culture normally entails the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization. In this regard, it is very fundamental and elemental for any institution or organization like Brook University to conduct a cultural organizational analysis. There are three various approach that researchers can employ in carrying out an organizational cultural analysis; an integration approach, a differentiation approach and a fragmentation approach. All these approaches or theories differ in basic codes, standards and believes which actually ...

Executive Summary

A business establishment usually have challenges that come together with its operations. Most of the challenges are financially related and can be solved by having good market strategies. Other problems that may be faced by a company include competition and customer betrayal depending on the type of business enterprise.

This report is to cover iinet service providers which is an Australian based company which offers internet services. The report is going to tackle areas on how the Australian company has been operating, the hurdles that the company has undergone and the measures that have been taken by the company’s ...