VIGNETTE “RIAA Fights Music Piracy”
1. Is the RIAA’s strong stand on copyright infringement helping or hurting
the music recording industry?
Answer:
For me it helps the music industry. To prevent any copyright it is better not to buy a pirated CD's/DVD's to prevent this kind of action. The RIAA
works to protect the intellectual property and First Amendment rights of
artists and music industry.
2. Could an ISP’s implementation and enforcement of the RIAA’s multitier
strategy have a negative impact on the ISP?
Answer:
RIAA says that the music industry has fully embraced the Internet
as a major channel for distribution to consumers. The group has called on the
Federal Communications Commission. It endorse efforts to curb illegal downloads
of copyrighted works and any illegal activities through internet.
Lotus v. Borland
1. Go to your school’s computer lab or a PC software store and experiment
with current versions of any two of the Quattro, Excel, or Lotus 1-2-3
spreadsheet programs. Write a brief paragraph summarizing the
similarities and differences in the “look and feel” of these two programs.
Answer:
The interface of Excel and Lotus are almost the same the function of the input type in keyboard and mouse are the same. But on the insert bar of lotus are different compare to excel which is intact and lot of functions found on Menu bar to be use.
2. The courts took several years to reverse their initial decision and rule
in favor of Borland. What impact did this delay have on the software
industry? How might things have been different if Borland had received an
initial favorable ruling?
Answer:
In court of Borland products has affect its sales due to unnecessary
things that happened. This kind of issues have a bigger impact to software
industry, producer, and etc.Due to lawsuit happened between Borland and Lotus. Borland quit in
producing spreadsheet and do other business programming software.
3. Assume that you are the manager of Borland’s
software development. With the benefit of hindsight, what different
decisions would you have made about Quattro?
Answer:
If I'm the manager of that company I'll just make sure that I will make a unique software that can help in our company and avoid some anything that suing in our company.
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