Introduction
Taken aback, when an individual or group invent or create something, it takes time for that Invention or creation to be known by the publics, cause, the author is scared somebody else would use what he/she has created without permission. It is very unfair for someone to create/invent something and see other people using it without permission or even using it as if they made it, this act discourages bargaining in Business World. Nigeria Movie Industry as an example battles piracy every day. When a movie is out, some individuals finds a way to download it and burn it to CD’s in large copies and sell it out to hawkers to either sell in traffic or in shops. This malicious act wrecks the movie industries cause, they sell the pirated
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Meaning and importance
Copyright laws can be defined as some kind of protection given by law and order to protect authors of a certain invention or original work of material creation. Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright office of the United States, gives an inventor the sole right to give other people the right to go ahead to use his/her original work. If found guilty of violating these laws, the person or group of people are sanctioned according to the law.
Copyright laws are the guidelines to today’s business world, it helps in guiding bargaining and dealing in the market place so that bargaining can be done fairly and in the sole interest of every individual. The absence of this law would have brought about businessmen swindling themselves and the authors of original work would so discourage that they might stop inventing/creating new works cause, credit, honor is not given to whom honor is due. All sort of illegal and deceitful act would have taken place in the marketplace without the copyright
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Artistic work, pictures, design, inventions, literary works and commercial names are all intellectual properties. According to the world Intellectual Property Organization(WIPO)
Patents, copyright, and trademarks are Property laws.
Conclusion
As I’m aware of the code of ethics, I will always put in my best to adhere and respect, follow duly to all ethical codes as a computer scientist and a businessperson. Having read through all the available ethical codes, most of them have an impact on me and I think to start with my professional career, I will begin to follow them.
1.Being Honest in all my professional dealings with individuals or group of people
2. Appropriate and due Action will be taken to report to the necessary authority for any unethical practices, either by coworkers or ant organization and If I’m to be a judge in a case, I’ll make sure I listen to both parties and judge accordingly without holding back or putting anyone’s interest in consideration.
3. I will always share my special knowledge amongst colleagues or coworkers.
4. Rallying together with other to solve matters
My personal code of ethics outlines the values and principles, which I believe in and rely on in life; the code determines the decisions I make concerning my daily activities and my association with family, colleagues, and the society. The values and principles also act as my main point of reference when I am faced with a dilemma and need to make a sound dec...
A code of ethics and a moral code is important because it sets values that hold up the standers that the certain company is expecting from their employees, or values that a person is expecting from someone else. I believe that having applied ethics as a focus in life is a major priority, applied ethics easily tells us what’s right and wrong. Everyone person goes through a phase in life when they learn the word no and yes, this is an example of applied ethics. Knowing yes this is the right choice and no I should turn away from this is very important. Applied ethics are given to every person through the process of growing up and learning right and wrong. A personal moral philosophy doesn’t have to be changed, you have been given a foundation as a young person and it is up to you on rather you would want to change it or keep the principles that you already know.
Abstract: In 1995 Lance Rose and Esther Dyson wrote articles in Wired Magazine expressing polarized views on the future of copyright law and copyright infringement. This essay reviews those articles, analyzes each article's accuracy as defined by current trends years later.
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When running a business ethics plays an important role in the success of the business. “Ethics is the study of those values that relate to our moral conduct, including questions of good and evil, right and wrong, and moral responsibility” (pg. 2). Every individual will have a different set of moral codes. Moral codes are shaped by your personality, environment and religion. In this scenario and throughout this paper you will come to understand how our moral code of ethics plays a role in our daily decisions.
For a company to be successful ethically, it must go beyond the notion of simple legal compliance and adopt a values-based organizational culture. A corporate code of ethics can be a very valuable and integral part of a company’s culture but I believe that it is not strong enough to stand alone. Thought and care must go into constructing the code of ethics and the implementation of it. Companies need to infuse ethics and integrity throughout their corporate culture as well as into their definition of success. To be successfully ethical, companies must go beyond the notion of simple legal compliance and adopt a values-based organizational culture.
“Copyright is a fundamental right of ownership and protection common to all of the arts” (O’Hara & Beard, 2006, p. 8). “It is a form of intellectual Property (IP)” and it gives the owner exclusive rights to the copyright (O’Hara & Beard, 2006, p. 11).
Ethical values may come in all shapes and sizes; we may grow up with a certain set of ethics and/or values that change and conform to our environment. This widely depends on where we end up later in life as in our professional career or our personal lives because different situations can affect how we interrupt ethics and social responsibility. Work may influence or provide a new set of lenses in how ethics are viewed. We are given a set of ethics to adhere to while employed. By definition, “that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and
To provide an example of a breach of ethical conduct in the workplace, we may remember the case of a financial manager in a corporation that decided not to pay overtime to some employees. After a deep outside investigation, the company was summoned with thousands of dollars to remedy the payment that was supposed to be paid to all employees who worked more than forty hours per week. Again, it is needed more than just a booklet stating that the company adheres to the code of business ethics. It is needed serious managers that can run the company with the most seriousness as possible. Consequently, any written codes of business ethics, regardless of how well it has been crafted, need people that adhere to its internal content with a serious desire to do the right thing.
Copyright, in its first form, was first introduced in 1710 with a British statute of Anne. Since this time copyright laws have changed to remain current, and have grown into an international agreement by many countries around the globe.
Copyright and fair use law are very important because it keeps us from becoming thieves and stealing other people's ideas. I am now going to go into detail about copyright and fair use. Copyright, copyright is a law that does not approve of plagiarism. Plagiarism is a felony when you steal an idea from someone else's design and call it your own. Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution clearly states that if you come up with an idea, an item or a design you are in full ownership of that item. If you Plagiarize you will be charged with arresting and son in court for not following the copyright law. Copyright deals with any item such as music, movies, books, and so forth. When people don't follow the copyright rule, you can get charged with a
Piracy is primarily a problem for the entertainment and software industries, and therefore piracy most often involves violations of copyright law. Copyright is a legal right that protects creative works from being reproduced, performed, or disseminated without permission of the copyright owner. Essentially, a copyright gives its owner the exclusive right to make copies of the material in question.
The Code of ethics is rules and principals that are set in place to help individuals to determine what is right and wro...
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