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Intellectual Property
Ways Businesses Can Expand
Fair Access to Information
Terms and Concepts
Miscellaneous
100
Copyright
What is the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise use a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, or video?
100
Merger
What is a combination of two or more businesses to form a single firm?
100
Digital Divide
What is socioeconomic and other inequalities between those people who have opportunities and skills enabling them to benefit from digital resources, especially the Internet, and those who do not have these opportunities or skills?
100
Globalization
What is the processes by which the peoples of the world are incorporated into a single world society?
100
Potable
What is water that is fit or suitable for drinking?
200
Piracy
What is the unauthorized reproduction or use of a copyrighted book, recording, television program, patented invention, or trademarked product?
200
Between $60 million - $100 million
What is the amount of money 50 Cent is thought to have made through his endorsement deal with Glaceau?
200
Microfinance
What is a way of extending credit, usually in the form of small loans with no collateral, to nontraditional borrowers such as the poor in rural or undeveloped areas?
200
Environmental Degradation
What is deterioration of the environment, in terms of both quantity and quality? Quantity, e.g. refers to the extinction of wildlife; quality refers to air, water, and land resources.
200
Yes.
What is in the United States, do corporations have the rights of individuals?
300
Fair Use
What is a copyright principle based on the belief that the public is entitled to freely use portions of copyrighted material for purposes of commentary and criticism?
300
Vertical Merger
What is the type of merger when Frito-Lay, Inc. merged with the Pepsi-Cola Company in 1965, resulting in the formation of PepsiCo, Inc.?
300
Hactivist
What is a hacker and activist?
300
Love Canal
What is an example of environmental degradation in Buffalo? What is when Hooker Chemical Company dumped 20,000 tons of toxic waste into a canal and sold the land to the city of Niagara Falls for $1?
300
Cochabamba, Bolivia
What is the name of the city where the forced privatization of water was met with mass resistance?
400
Remix Culture
What is a culture that allows and encourages derivative works by combining or editing existing materials to produce a new product; examples include folklore, graffiti, Wikipedia, sampling, etc
400
Horizontal mergers
What is when firms that produce the same kind of product join forces?
400
Economic Empowerment
What is allows poor people to think beyond immediate daily survival and to exercise greater control over both their resources and life choices? What is enables people to make their own decisions around making investments in health and education?
400
Vietnam: Agent Orange (1961 – 1971) Bhopal, India: Gas leak (1984) Chernobyl: Nuclear accident (1986)
What is other examples of environmental degradation we discussed?
400
(Global) South
What is an economic and political designation given to developing nations in Asia, Africa, and South America, many of which were former European colonies? These postcolonial nations face low literacy rates, high unemployment, little to no industrialization, and economic dependency.
500
Industrial Property
What is the category of intellectual property that includes inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source?
500
Indra Nooyi
What is the Indian-American business executive and the current Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo.?
500
Aaron Swartz
What is a programmer, hactivist, writer who wanted information to be accessible for all people?
500
(Global) North
What is an economic and political designation given to industrialized countries such those in North America and Western Europe, and also including Japan, and Australia; have high standards of living and a high literacy rate
500
Pish-check
What is how to properly pronounce Mr. Pyszczeck's name in Polish?