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As we can see in the preliminary discussion above, in the face of the extension of copyright and patent-heavy cultures from western nations to global trade relationships, the very conflict between capitalism and social progressivism is implicated. Indeed, many socially conscious global economic groups are protesting international intellectual property laws that they say are burdensome to developing economies and which favor the sense of entitlement and ownership typically reserved for those individuals and entities with greater resources at their disposal. Critics cite the World Trade Organization (WTO) and global legislation which it has sponsored such as the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) as fundamentally flawed and unfairly biased to benefit the wealthy. This helps to characterize a major aspect of the philosophical debate which currently differentiates the relevant perspectives of nations such as China, on one hand, and Canada and the United States on the other.
Globalizing groups and nations are concerned with the issue of protecting such commercial properties as those which might be defined as 'intellectual' in nature. Intellectual property is that property which, though represented in terms of words, images, ideas or designs, can nonetheless be demonstrated to have quantifiable and qualified economic value. This is a core social issue relating directly the philosophical orientation of different social contexts, with capitalist nations such as Canada and the United States taking a highly stringent position on the subject and with more socialist oriented nations such as China taking a fundamentally non-proprietary approach. Thus, with the growth of international trade, this issue has prompted widespread disagreement and sweeping legislation designed to resolve these differences. As the legislation currently in place clearly favors the ideals of proprietary economies, it represents a core social conflict with widespread implications. (Chengsi, 1)
There is a direct impact of globalization which TRIPS is essentially designed to prevent. This may be noted in the manner in which the Chinese have come to rather voraciously consume Western-borne culture content, and particularly film content. Here, the implications of globalization become ever more obfuscating with some of the challenging differences in cultural perspective and policy producing a pattern which has discontented many in, for instance, the American film industry. Indeed, while Americans attempt to co-opt and formulize that which is profitable from Chinese cinema, China has simply become the world's capital for the unauthorized piracy of American cultural content. Though the United States government and film associations have expressed...
However, the rights have some confinements incorporating the limitations and other considerations of issues like their contradiction with the fundamental rights and the codified provisions in force. The legal issues involving intellectual property rights have two dimensions. Firstly, those that provide exclusive rights only in the sphere of copying / reproduction of the item or act safeguarded and secondly, those which provide a right to deter others from doing
China's Intellectual Property Rights: Current Issues, Strategic Considerations And Problem Solving In this paper, the focus is primarily on the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) that are given to individuals within the Republic of China. The paper starts off by defining IPR and the different ways that IPR is provided like copyright infringement. The paper them moves on to define IPR and its progression in China through the imperialistic years, the era
Johnson reports that "in 1998, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)1 severely limited the use of copyrighted materials in distance learning. In 2002, the Technology, Education, and Copy- right Harmonization Act (TEACH Act) relaxed these restrictions under specific conditions. These two laws significantly changed the way educators could use copyrighted material in the digital class- room." (Johnson, p. 66) In the section hereafter, the research considers the implications of this
Globalization's Affect On Public Health The objective of this study is to examine the affect of globalization on public health. Mendoza (2007) writes that the World Health Assembly (WHA) "ratified the new International Health Regulations" in May 2005. (p.79) The revised IHR is reported to empower the World Health Organization (WHO) and member states to meet the 21st Century global health challenges affecting international traffic and trade." (Mendoza, 2007, p.79) The
Hats and Globalization The hat stand in South Korea is visible in the picture "global" in a cultural sense because it is reflective of the cultural changes swirling all around the South Korean market. It sits, first of all, in front of a Western bakery shop -- a Dunkin' Donuts -- which is in and of itself an emblem of a foreign culture within the Asian culture of South Korea. The
Neoliberalism and Globalization Globalization may be an overused word, although the new version of international capitalism is still so recent that the actual system on the ground has outrun the scientific and theoretical vocabulary that describes it. As a system, international capitalism is rapidly eliminating geographical and political boundaries, as Marx predicted in the 19th Century. In the global, postmodern economy, branding also involves relentless synergy and tie-ins between various diverse
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