- •Unit 1. Employment Issues
- •Vocabulary and Listening
- •Vocabulary and Reading
- •Active Participation of Women in the Labour Force
- •Unit 2. Public Relations
- •Vocabulary and Reading
- •Unit 3. Spending on Education
- •Vocabulary and Listening
- •Investing in Brains
- •University fees
- •Unit 4. Corporate Morals. The Psychology of Power
- •Only the little people pay taxes...
- •Vocabulary
- •Unit 5. A Competitive Spirit in Business
- •Unit 6. The World Economy. New Dangers
- •Supply chains in China
- •Unit 7. Innovations
- •Opting for the quiet life
- •Vocabulary and Reading
- •Innovations in cell phones
- •Unit 8. Joint Bosses. The Trouble With Tandem
- •Vocabulary and Listening
- •Vocabulary
- •Unit 9. Storing and Managing Economic Information
- •Vocabulary and Reading
- •Unit 10. Food Production and Consumption
- •Vocabulary and Reading
- •Genetically modified food Attack of the really quite likeable tomatoes
- •More than strange fruits
- •Unit 11. Economy and Environment. Climate Change
- •Vocabulary and Listening
- •For peat’s sake, stop
- •Spin, science and climate change
- •Insuring against catastrophe
- •Unit 12. Intellectual Property Rights and Music Piracy
- •Vocabulary and Reading
- •How to sink pirates
- •Appendix 1. Role Plays
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- •Unit 1. Employment Issues.
- •Unit 2. Public Relations
- •Unit 3. Spending on Education. Investing in Brain
- •University fees
- •Unit 4. Corporate Morals. The psychology of Power
- •Corporate crime is on the rise The rot spreads
- •Unit 5. A Competitive Spirit in Business Spit and polish
- •Unit 6. World Economy. New Dangers
- •Supply chains in China
- •Unit 7. Innovations
- •Unit 8. Joint Bosses. The Trouble With Tnadem
- •Unit 9. Storing and Managing Economic Information The data deluge
- •Unit 10. Food Production and Consumption
- •A hill of beans
- •Unit 11. Economy and Environment. Climate Change For peat’s sake, stop
- •Unit 12. Intellectual Property Rights and Music Piracy Singing a different tune
- •Bibliography
- •Contents
- •Вопросы мировой экономики/world economy issues
- •400131, Волгоград, просп. Им. В. И. Ленина, 28.
- •400131 Волгоград, ул. Советская, 35.
1. Read the situation:
Minister of Internal Affairs conducts a meeting with a newly formed special department dealing with crime in the sphere of IT. The main topic of their discussion is the list of options for the battle against online music piracy.
2. Choose your role:
Role 1. Minister of Internal Affairs and the chairperson of the meeting.
Role 2. The Head of the department dealing with crime in the IT sphere
Roles 3,4. IT experts.
Roles 5,6. Famous musicians.
3. Study your role and get ready to present it:
Role 1. You are Minister of Internal Affairs and the chairperson of the meeting. Explain that the objectives of the meeting are to decide what to do about the music piracy in the country. In the end of the meeting be ready to sum up all possible actions to be taken against music piracy.
Your ideas:
The country runs the risk of turning into a cultural desert because of the music piracy."
Music piracy has become so popular that some people are not even aware that what they are doing is wrong. It is time we start looking at music piracy for what it really is; an illegal, immoral action that has serious personal and economic consequences.
Drastic action needs to be taken in order to save the country’s music industry (offer some of them).
Role 2. You are the Head of the department K dealing with crime in the IT sphere
Present the results of the survey conducted by your department:
The sales of albums by local artists have fallen by 65% in five years.
Young adults are the least likely to express concern about the copyrights of the files they share with others, with 82% of file-sharers aged 18-29 saying they don’t care much about the copyright status of the files they share.
Those aged 30 to 64 are more likely to express concern about copyrights, with about 2 in 5 file-sharers in those age groups saying as much.
Nevertheless, in each age group, a plurality if not an out right majority of each group say that they are unconcerned about the copyright of the files they share online.
Students, both full-time and part-time, who share files, say they are not concerned about the copyright status of the files they share with others online. Eighty percent of full-time students and almost three-quarters of part-time students say they do not care whether the files they share are copyrighted or not. Fifty-nine percent of non-students say the same.
Those with lower levels of education are much more likely to express very little concern, and even amongst college grads, a majority (56%) say they don’t care much about copyright.”
Roles 3,4. You are IT experts. Express your ideas on the measures to be taken against music piracy. The following information can be helpful:
The Copyright Clause of the USA Constitution empowers the United States Congress to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries
In the USA the Copyright Act states that only the copyright owner has the right "to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords
Millions of people who would never dream of shoplifting a CD, seem to have no ethical qualms about downoading music.
It’s necessary to organize an ad campaign using the slogan “copying is stealing,” attempting to convey the message that digital copying is as serious and criminal as stealing a CD from a record shop or a DVD from a video shop
Roles 5,6. You are famous musicians. Express your attitude to music piracy:
It’s not the musicians want to make millions. Many just want to make music and pay their way- pay for the rehearsal room, studio etc.
There still seems to be a residual mindset that musicians live like the Rolling Stones and are rolling in money and deserved to be fleeced but that’s nowhere near the reality.
The most bizarre thing is the disdain musicians are held in. Like they don’t deserve to scrape any kind of living in the filthiest business known to man. Somehow it’s deemed ok to spend a grand on a laptop from some big corporate company but somehow wrong to pay for music.
Appendix 2.