Case Studies(600-800wors) total
do not need any cites and finish it in 16 hours
In your discussions of the two case studies below, refer to ethical theories and frameworks, details about the U.S. law that we have studied in class, and class readings. Make sure to use key vocabulary learned in this course. Write between 300 and 400 words for each of the two cases below.
Case Studies:
1. Two professors suggested that software is a “public good” (like public schools and national defense), that we should allow anyone to copy it, and that the federal government should subsidize it. Suppose this proposal, made in the 1990s, had been adopted. How well do you think it would have worked? How would it have affected the quantity and quality of software produced? Give reasons.
2. A bill introduced in the New York legislature would require that drivers involved in a car crash give their phone to police so that the police can check whether the driver was using the phone at the time of the crash. Give arguments for and against passage of the bill.
Obsolete
Obsolescence
Planned Obsolescence
Perceived/Psychological Obsolescence
Globalization
Cultural Globalization
Consumerism
Western Ethics
Deontological Ethics
Consequentialist Ethics
Utilitarianism:
Act utilitarianism
Rule utilitarianism
Techno-optimism
Externality
Kantian Ethics: Not Consequentialist
Natural Rights
Negative and Positive Rights
Social Contract Theory
Modern Social Contract Theory
Blackfoot Physics and European Minds
Native American Ethics
Narrative ethics
The Ethic of Non-Interference
The Indian Concept of Time
Principle that Everything Is Shared
Buddhist Ethics
Ethics of Care
Intellectual Property
1. Copyright
2. Patents (Protect inventions)
3. Trademark
4. Trade Secret
Indigenous Culture and IP
· Types of protection:
1. Copyright
Fair Use
Doctrine of First Sale
2. Patents
3. Trademark
Digital Rights Management
Humanitarian FOSS
Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software
(Digital) Privacy
Personally Identifiable Information (PII or personal information/data)
Sensitive Personal Information
Right to be let alone; right to be free from intrusion
Privacy as Concealment