Case Study #1 “Pharmaceutical Companies, Intellectual Property, and the Global AIDS Epidemic” Questions for Review: 1. Do pharmaceutical companies have a responsibility to distribute drugs for free or at low cost in developing countries? What are the main arguments for and against such an approach? What are the advantages and disadvantages of giving drugs for free versus offering them at low no-profit prices? -I don’t necessarily think that they have the “responsibility” to do so but I think
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Larry A. Shervington Jr. PHI 314 PAPA Term Paper 12/10/2015 Richard Mason developed the “PAPA” model as a way of characterizing ethics and moral compass as they relate to the information technology industry. As we further progress deeper into the era of information technology these ethics become a more prevalent part of our daily lives. From education and banking to medical and motor vehicles, information technology has now become as much of a constant in human life as ever. It’s because of
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First of all … What is copyright? Copyright is the right that all creators possess in order to prevent others from copying their mental property and creative works without the creators’ permission. Copyright protects the works of various creators, these consist of artists, musicians, filmmakers and even people who create and produce code. So long as these creative works have been recorded, filmed, written down they are protected by copyright as soon as they have been created. The copyright notice/symbol
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March 2011 Almost from its inception, software technology has been has been dogged by digital piracy-the illegal distribution and/or copying of software for personal and business use.141 It’s an explosive issue, and it cuts right to the perception and protection of intellectual
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ethical leadership and management Nadine Fairholt bus 212: professor dr. robert leahey Legal and ethical leadership and management The behavior of Normandale is highly unprofessional and unethical. Ethics or morals are assortment of value to the right of comportment that forms the choices people or societies make. In businesses like the scenario has given, businesses set all conceivable exertion in the aforementioned interest in directive to making the most excellent revenue. On the other hand all
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these technologies to the developing countries as a part of their FDI strategy, this gives these countries access to vital information on these technologies which can be imitated by the host country. Although one may argue that there exist Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) governing transfer and protecting of technologies through patents and trademarks, however, developing countries seldom have the machinery and the funds to uphold such protection as guaranteed by the various IPR laws, act and
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Just take a minute to think back throughout the years, of how often you have used either a picture, or some type of graphic representation from the internet. “Wow”, that a lot of pictures. Doing this, I never really took the time to realize whether or not, it was legal to use that picture, or graphic. Understanding the laws for using images can be a bit tricky, especially because there is wiggle room within the laws. And, with the mass distribution of images on the internet, it’s no wonder we’re
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permission. All other uses of the document are conditional upon the consent of the copyright owner. The publisher has taken technical and administrative measures to assure authenticity, security and accessibility. According to intellectual property law the author has the right to be mentioned when his/her work is accessed as
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Article Tile: Specific legal issues affecting the implementation of computer-based information systems in the developing countries: a critical review of literature A paper presented to the Journal of library and information science for consideration for publication. Date: November 2015 Author: Daniel Kinyanjui (Bsc-Information Science-Moi University-Eldoret, Kenya and Currently Studying Masters of Library and Information Science at Kenyatta University-Kenya) Daniel is also the editor of institutional
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were violated were basically the rights that I had protected under the intellectual property law, more appropriately the exclusive right to control how I want my creation to be used. Federal law grants copyright protection to “an original work of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression” {U.S. Code, Vol. 17, sec. 102(a)} (Grama, 2011). This also implies that the owner has the exclusive right to do as he pleases with the material in question. The rights that are given to the copyright
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