College Copy Shop (CCS)compiles,copies,and Sells Reading Materials to Students on the Instructions

question 14

Essay

College Copy Shop (CCS)compiles,copies,and sells reading materials to students on the instructions of their professors,who indicate which parts of which publications should be included.These include texts published by Deep Topics,Inc.CCS does not obtain the permission of Deep Topics,or any of the other original publishers of the copied materials,and does not pay royalties on the sales of the compilations.Deep Topics and others file a suit against CCS,alleging infringement of the plaintiffs' intellectual property rights.Which type of intellectual property is involved in this situation? What is CCS's likely defense? How is a court most likely to rule? Explain.

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Random

Manifesting without any discernible pattern or strategy, happening randomly.

Presale Testing

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The quantification of an event's occurrence probability, expressed with a number from 0 to 1.

Computer Chip

A small piece of semiconducting material on which an integrated circuit is embedded.