The Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA), in particular, was pushed through the international legislative process with insufficient public input and opportunity to study and respond (Jolly, 2012). As a result, seventy-five law professors have signed an open letter to U.S. President Barack Obama urging him to reconsider U.S. ratification; they have also suggested that there may be serious constitutional problems with his signing the treaty in its current form on behalf of the nation (Jolly, 2012). They were joined by approximately 7 million people who signed an online petition promoted by Google and another 1.5 million people in Europe who have signed a similar petition opposing the ACTA (Jolly, 2012). On January 18, 2012, some of the world's largest websites shut down temporarily in protest over the proposed legislation (Jolly, 2012).
Undoubtedly, there is a need to prevent the illegal copying, distribution, and downloading of various types of intellectual property, especially motion pictures and music. However, the current versions of these bills are potentially much more harmful to society than beneficial because they would radically limit myriad types of speech, opinion, and intellectual communication far beyond what is necessary...
Thus the workings of the bill should it become law could also be frustrated by numerous demonstrations carried out by Americans unhappy with the utilization of their tax dollars. Also, given other more important priorities, I doubt whether the government would be willing to expend enormous resources to make such a law fully functional. Hence in my opinion, resource constraints may end up frustrating SOPA's resolve to address online
This is to note that "Trinidad and Tobago alone account for 80% (1st quarter 2004) of all U.S. LNG imports, up from 68% in 2002. Therefore, any incident involving an LNG tanker along the Caribbean routes could harm not only U.S. energy security but also the economies of the Caribbean islands, affecting tourism and other industries." (Kelshell, 1) Such a trajectory has all the markings of an Al-Qaeda styled
This will in turn lead to low selling price of most goods hence encouraging people to rely more on the goods because it is genuine and affordable. Pirated goods will therefore have no room to trade because the market will be flooded by genuine goods which are widely used by the citizens Wall Street, 2005() In creating awareness i.e. using Anti-piracy, the government should increase education of public officials, customs
Ruthless Overlords of Silicon Valley Globalization According to the article "The ruthless overlords of Silicon Valley," the corporate founders of the new digital age have tried to present themselves as benign leaders, more devoted to intellectual excellence and social good, rather than the ruthless pursuit of profits. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has said this directly: "simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services" (The
The fact that the country's huge social instability and unemployment rate is somewhat alleviated by counterfeiting also encourages the police to ignore the problem. Pfizer adopted a 4-prod approach to their problem - and this is actually a recommendation for all companies to adopt as means of problem-resolution: the problem was delineated Investigation was conducted into the extent of the problem Plans were brainstorming A specific plan was adopted and implements. Their first step was
Copyright Computer Software Piracy and Copyright Infringement This work completes my portion of the Blue Team's group project where we were each assigned a set of cases to review and summarize. This report is the summary for case number 3 called, Universal City Studios, Inc. V. Reimerdes. The purpose was to read and then assess each case. The objective of the paper is to provide a case summary and the rules of
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