Problem 1 Suppose company A wants to develop a program that

Problem 1: Suppose company A wants to develop a program that duplicates the functionality of a program made by company B. Describe how company A may do this without violating the copyrights held by company B.

Problem 2: Suppose your band has recorded a song and posted it as an MP3 file on your Web site.How can you allow people to download your music for noncommercial purposes while retaining your copyright on the song?

Problem 3: Any original piece of intellectual property you have created, such as a poem, termpaper, or photograph, is automatically copyrighted, even if you did not label it with a copyright notice. Think about your most valuable piece of intellectual property. Describe in detail the ownership rights you would like to claim on it.

Problem 4: Discuss the morality of posting the 32-character encryption key for HD-DVDs on websites like Digg.com (example); the morality of terminating the poster’s account; and the morality of reposting the encryption key.

Solution

Problem 1: The company must create two teams. The first team studies the company B\'s product funcationality and technical specifications. The second team should be completely isolated from the company B\'s product. Now the second should work on building the product ony based on the teachnical specification and functionality prodived by the first team.

Problem 2: You can use a creative commons license to achieve this.