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18 Cards in this Set
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What is intellectual property?
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Any unique product of the human intellect that has commercial value.
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Trademark
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A word, symbol, picture, sound, or color used by a business to identify goods.
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4 ways people can protect IP
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copyrights, trade secrets, patents, trademarks
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Time-shifting
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Recording television shows for viewing later.
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Space-shifting
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Copying a recording in order to make it portable--is fair use and entirely consistent with copyright law.
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Copyright owners have these 5 rights
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1. The right to reproduce the copyrighted work
2. The right to distribute copies of the work to the public 3. The right to display copies of the work in public 4. The right to perform the work in public. 5. The right to produce new works derived from the copyrighted work. |
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Trade secret
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a confidential piece of intellectual property that provides a company with a competitive advantage.
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What 5 things make the internet challenging to censor?
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1. Decentralized/many-to-many 2. Global 3. Dynamic 4. Anonymity/user age cannot be verified 5. Size--huge |
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What are 3 forms of direct censorship?
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1. Licensing and registration
2. Monopolization (government) 3. Pre-publication review/government |
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What is self-censorship?
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Group or individual decision to censor.
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Time limit of a patent
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20 years.
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What are the 4 elements of fair use?
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1. Did you make a profit--non-commercial use.
2. How much will be used? Excerpts/partial ok 3. Nature of use? Educational = ok. 4. Nature of work/what is it? Fiction vs. nonfiction. |
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Kantianism's Categorical Imperative
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1. First formulation: Act only from moral rules that you can at the same time will to be universal moral laws.
2. Act so that you always treat both yourself and other people as ends in themselves, and never only as a means to an end. |
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3 aids to manual calculating:
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Fingers,
Abacus, Slide rule |
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Why is internet decentralized?
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Is packet-switched vs circuit-switched. Originally designed as ARPAnet so a nuclear strike on one node of network would not bring down communication between other nodes.
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Difference between morality and ethics?
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Morality: rules of conduct describing what people should/shouldn't do in certain situations.
Ethics: Philosophical study of morality. |
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What is the Problem of moral luck?
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You can't always know the consequences of your actions beforehand.
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What is the difference principle?
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According to John Rawls, any social and economic inequalities must satisfy 2 conditions: first, they are associated with positions in society that everyone has a fair and equal opportunity to assume; and second, they are "to be the greatest benefit to the least-advantaged members of society."
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