Hank [BS/MSEE,
MSM $$$, Ph.D. Mgmt] teaches Linda Naimi’s Take on the “Black World of Ethics”
Yesterday, Linda did a great job of introducing the class to a broad range of definitions, derivations, and derivatives of approaches to ethical behavior on the part of entrepreneurs. She also provided an introduction to the many legal issues facing entrepreneurs such as copyrights, patents, and trademarks. (Barbara Gibbs will also address these issues in a subsequent class.) OK class, here it comes again….. What is the #1 thing/concept/application that you took away from Linda’s presentation that applies to your future entrepreneurial effort(s)??? And your comments are……
I liked how Linda explained the difference between trademark, patent, and copyright and their costs, but I also liked how she explained the difference between the law, morals, and values. That is helpful to us because it will help us explain to others the standards that we adhere to and also the standards that we expect in our company, no matter what they may be.
Linda’s speech was gratifying in the sense that it made me take a second opinion of my actions. I definitely was not aware of such elaborate differences between ethics, moral, laws and codes. After hearing her definitions and how different human beings could be, I decided that I would strive to be a more ethically correct person. I also found the differences between copyright, patent and trademark very helpful in terms of the business future outlook on what legal binds I would need for what type of service or product I am selling to the public.
The main thing I learned is that it is unlikely the RIAA will try to sue you if you only download music. Their main focus is to catch the uploaders, so the downloaders have no source to download from. Not that any of this applies to me…
I really appreciated her insight on patents, copyrights, and trademarks. I think that anyone who starts a successfull business will most likely have to deal with the legal issues of these three things. I also didn’t know that trademarks are free, and there is only a small processing fee.
I also think the laser-cat-exercise method is revolutionary. 10 times better than the alternatives? I’d like to think so.
I agree with Lars when it comes to the laser-cat-exercise. Pure genius. On another note, I thought that it was interesting when she was describing how to make sure that you get everything in writing mainly when dealing with contracts. The reason I found this so interesting was because we have already heard from Tim O’Malley that this is necessary so obviously it has real world significance.
what I found most useful was her telling us the difference
between copyright, patent, and trademark. I had wondered
for a while, but i just never took the time to look it up.
Life and Law isn’t Fair
The #1 concept I took away from Linda’s presentation was how ethics have a higher standard than law and morals. I thought it was interesting the way she presented the differences.
I liked her breakdown of the differences between ethics, morals and law, it was interesting. Also, hearing the take on an actual lawyer on the RIAA and MPAA and filesharing was interesting as well. What I took away from the presentation was that there are really a lot of shades pertaining to ethics in our society, and that morality and ethics do not necessarily correlate.
I thought Linda’s words were applicable to any line of work. It is enchanting to hear that as a lawyer she is moral/ethical and remains undefeated in the courtroom. Now I can justify to others that a conscionable individual can advance in the cutthroat world of business. Business ethics is NOT a oxymoron.
I’m glad I had the chance to listen to linda speak. I had no idea how easy it was to get a patten or trademark on something and how little the price was to have it done.