GMS 724 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mexican Drug War, Copyright Infringement, Asian Development Bank

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 724
• Professor: HOWARD LIN

Document Summary

Chapter 2 - strategic concerns - part 3. on internet sites, and copies of high-end counterfeit software rival the return from cocaine: for example, the notorious mexican drug cartel, "la famillia," sold counterfeit microsoft software through kiosks, markets, and stores in the. Michoac n region: adding insult to injury, it stamped counterfeit office discs with its "fmm" logo, globally, microsoft"s number two competitor is not another software company. It is counterfeiters: microsoft"s predicament in china highlights common problems. Microsoft, industry associations, the u. s. government, and transnational institutions: moreover, this situation is not merely microsoft"s particular problem; thousands of companies in tens of countries are caught in the same trap. Legacies, economies, and orientations: many local issues pose reasonable challenges that can be met with improved international laws, one cannot say the same for ip violations. Chinese jurist, means that intellectual property laws "exist to protect.