China jails Windows software pirates - 8 views
Case Summary: The article is about an intellectual property infringement that took place in China. A court in Eastern China has sentenced four people to up to three-and-a-half years in prison for ...
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U.S. students fight copyright law - 9 views
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/technology/11iht-download.1.7846678.html?scp=20&sq=copyright&st=Search A student previously fined for breaking copyright laws at Brown University on Rhode Island ...
Does patent/ copyright stifle or promote innovation? - 6 views
From a Critical Ethic perspective, Who do patents and copyrights protect? What kind of ideologies underly such a policy? I would argue that it is the capitalist ideologies, individualist ideolo...
What's so Original in Academic Research? - 26 views
Thanks for your comments. I may have appeared to be contradictory, but what I really meant was that ownership of IP should not be a motivating factor to innovate. I realise that in our capitalistic...
Libertarianism Is Marxism of the Right - 4 views
http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t21933.html "Because 95 percent of the libertarianism one encounters at cocktail parties, on editorial pages, and on Capitol Hil...
Pirate Party wins surprise Euro seat, calls for Web freedom - 3 views
Case study: Link: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/06/08/pirate.party.eu.win/index.html Summary: A Swedish political party campaigning the legalizing of file-sharing on the Internet won ...
Go slow with Net law - 4 views
Article : Go slow with tech law Published : 23 Aug 2009 Source: Straits Times Background : When Singapore signed a free trade agreement with the USA in 2003, intellectual property rights was a ...
Measuring the effectiveness of online activism - 2 views
Reference: Krishnan, S. (2009, June 21). Measuring the effectiveness of online activism. The Hindu. Retrieved September 24, 2009, from Factiva. (Article can be found at bottom of the post) Summary...
Anti plagiarism is (un)ethical - 20 views
I think there is a need to investigate the motivation behind using these softwares. Suppose a writer has recently come across an article that seemingly have plagiarised, thus using the software to ...
Digging up the Past, but not necessarilly forgotten. - 1 views
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYoexSAInQY Firstly, let me apologise for the exclusivity of the language. I tried looking for an English song but could not recall one. In any case, when t...
Illegal downloaders may face ban from internet - 5 views
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090825/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_downloading UK may block repeated offenders who illegally download and share copyright films and music could find their internet access ...
Pinkberry serves lawsuits to six frozen yogurt shops - 4 views
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pinkberry12-2008sep12,0,2520279.story The article is about an American frozen yogurt chain that is suing other 'copycat' businesses. One such chain was even c...
Forthcoming Leona Lewis tracks leaked onto the net by hackers - 11 views
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1207707/Forthcoming-Leona-Lewis-tracks-leaked-internet-highest-profile-hacking-case.html Basically, hackers managed to gain access to unreleased tracks...
Turning dolls into babies - 6 views
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-evening-chronicle/2007/09/11/when-does-a-doll-become-a-baby-72703-19770082/ Just to share an interesting article about how dolls nowadays are ...
Police raid 13 shops in Lucky Plaza - 13 views
http://www.tnp.sg/printfriendly/0,4139,209251,00.html 1) Officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) raided 13 shops in Lucky Plaza and arrested 27 men and one woman, aged...
ASCAP Makes Outlandish Copyright Claims on Cell Phone Ringtones - 16 views
As is the beginnings of copyright laws, it is to place value on IP so that people will have the motivation and incentive to produce and create even more in the future. Therefore, by saying th...
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