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Visual Fine Art and Copyright in the Digital Networking Age
Michael E. Jones
Abstract
The aim of copyright is to create incentives for art to be created,
designed and, in many cases,
shared or exhibited. The law does this by giving an artist exclusive
rights to control the public
display of one’s work, and to control copies of one’s work. The growth
of new technologies has
made it more difficult for an artist to not merely control the original
work of art, but to receive
compensation and credit. What if the artist objects to the
transformational or derivative use of the
original work of art because it is used without permission or invades
the artist’s publicity rights?
Are analog rules effective in a digital world? An exploration of these
questions, and the notion of
whether the law should be expanded to protect innovative uses or whether
new uses of art should not receive the same protection, follows.
Full Article
Due to the progress in manufacturing technology, rapid
changing business environment, and shorter product life
cycle, hi-tech industries must place greater effort in
increasing their R&D technologies to meet customer demands
and achieve new product development performance. This
research examines Taiwan’s hi-tech companies by conducting a
series of R&D management activities. The influences of these
activities on new product achievement is determined and
analyzed. Two intermediate variables for corporate status
and R&D tendency are considered in discussing the
relationship between R&D management and new product
development. The former belongs to the influence factor for
exterior strategy, while the latter is related to interior
organization. Since Taiwan’s hi-tech industries has
gradually entered the age in which core technologies and R&D
competence are starting to determine a business’s
competitive advantages, this study will focus on R&D
management for hi-tech industries, which is very meaningful
both academically and practically. Some of this research
findings are: (1) New product development performance is
significant when R&D management ability is stronger; (2) New
product development performance is significant when R&D
tendency is higher; (3) Enterprise scale is not a key factor
for new product development; (4) New product development
performance is significant when technology status is
superior.
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Article
Abstract
The OECD guide
entitled “Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard” proposes using
patents as indicators of innovation and therefore of economic growth.
Using a framework of an inherent trade-off between incentives and the
undesirable results of patents’ temporary monopoly, this paper
highlights several limitations and assumptions of patents as indicators
of economic growth. These limitations include inability of patent-based
indicators alone to explain differences in levels of economic growth,
their exclusion of unpatented and non-patentable inventions, their
inability to capture all the costs of a patent system, and
jurisdictional differences in patent laws and enforcement levels.
Consequently, this paper concludes that such limitations render patents
ambiguous indicators of innovation and therefore of economic growth.
Full Article
Alessandro
Figus
Abstract
This paper is
concerned with the politics of Italian regionalism. Today it
is unfortunately still a topical subject and leads to a
related simple question: “what is separatism ?”. It is
possible to give different answers depending where the
question is set. In accordance with one of the more common
definitions, separatism means: “the character or act of a
separatist”.
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