CHAPTER 6 CASE STUDY

Vignette: RIAA Fights Music Piracy

1. Is the RIAA’s strong stand on copyright infringement helping or hurting the music recording

industry?

    I think it helps the music recording industry, so to prevent it’s better to buy an original copies not copyrighted. In support of this mission, the RIAA works to protect the intellectual property and First Amendment rights of artists and music labels, conduct consumer, industry and technical research and monitor and review state and federal laws, regulations and policies. They have the right to stand strong on this law because they felt being insulted. They record that song nor create that movie for them to gain profit but what they did is that they just downloaded it freely on net.

                                      

2. Could an ISP’s implementation and enforcement of the RIAA’s multitier strategy have a

negative impact on the ISP?

    The ISP cannot download any movie or music freely. If they want it then they must pay for this. The RIAA says 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 to endorse efforts to curb illegal downloads of copyrighted works.

Lotus vs. 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.

    Is a spreadsheet program from Lotus Software (now part of IBM). It was the IBM PC's first "killer application"; its huge popularity in the mid-1980s contributed significantly to the success of the IBM PC in the corporate environment. While the Microsoft Excel is a commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.                        
   
                     

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?

     Its because the Lotus menu command hierarchy is copyright-able subject matter,
we further hold that Borland did not infringe Lotus's copyright by copying it. We need not consider any of Borland's affirmative defenses.  It has a favor decision for Borland. Because they allow Borland without thinking of its consequences and infringement. The industry might be mad and confused for this decision.

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?
     The best thing that I will do is to do the right things and if that right things will be block then I might resign for I know that it is all illegal and someday I might go to prison for this act if I will consider it.