Assignment:
1. Insider Trading
2. In one paragraph supported by your text and other research, describe a recent example of insider trading. Determine whether the case met the elements of insider trading established by the Supreme Court in U.S. vs. O'Hagen, described in the text. Respond to at least two of your classmates' postings.
3. Consumer Privacy
In one paragraph supported by your text and other research, determine which of the three solutions to consumer privacy issues listed in(consumer self-help, industry self-regulation, and privacy legislation) you support. Defend your position using at least one example. Respond to at least two of your classmates' postings.
Assignments
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Case Study: Vidding -- Free Expression or Copyright Piracy? Read Discussion Case Vidding -- Free Expression or Copyright Piracy? at the end of in your text. In a one- to two-page paper (not including the title and reference pages) you must:
• Explain, using the ethical criteria introduced in (utilitarianism, rights, and justice), if the creating and uploading of vids to the Internet are simply an ethical expression of one's free speech, or if it is an infringement of intellectual property.
• Explain where to draw the line when using material found on the Internet, while trying to respect the artists' intellectual property and rights to royalties from their creations.
• Describe how different a vid should be from the original source to justify that it is no longer the same material as the original artist created and thus not covered under the copyright laws.
You must use at least one scholarly source in addition to the text, and your paper must be formatted according to APA style guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.