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Keeping your news safe and legal

Issues which teachers taking part in School Report must consider before putting their students' news on a website.

Europe votes on anti-piracy laws

Late changes to proposed European telecoms laws could see suspected copyright pirates banned from the net.

Making punishment fit the crime

Regular columnist Bill Thompson wonders about the punishment that should be meted out to copyright infringers.

Google must divulge YouTube log

Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched avideo on YouTube, says a US court.

Q&A: Divulging YouTube log

A US court has ruled that Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube. But what does this mean?

Stars back music copyright system

Music stars and composers are in Brussels to campaign against changes to the rules governing music copyright.

Universal loses promo CD battle

Music giant Universal Music loses a court battle to stop an eBay trader from reselling promotional CDs.

Music firm 'goblins' in copyright war

The world's biggest record company and a second-hand record dealer are locked in a legal battle that could affect many people's music collections.

YouTube law fight 'threatens net'

Legal action against YouTube by content giant Viacom, threatens internet freedom, says owner Google.

When can papers you're carrying be photoed?

Two minsters have been left red-faced after documents taken to a Downing Street briefing were photographed and enlarged.

TorrentSpy ordered to pay $110m

File-sharing site TorrentSpy is ordered to pay damages to the US film industry for copyright theft.

Paying the price for heritage

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Counterfeit haul seized from home

About Ј750,000 worth of counterfeit goods are seized by police in a raid on a house in Edinburgh.

BBC wins battle over Dalek book

The BBC wins a court battle over who owns the rights to publish books about Doctor Who's legendary foes the Daleks.

Potter fan faces Rowling in court

The author of an unofficial Harry Potter encyclopaedia breaks down in court in a legal battle with JK Rowling.

Gucci wins Chinese copyright case

Italian luxury brand Gucci wins a key case against Chinese shoe firm Senda for breaching copyright rules.

Laws protect iconic street signs

Copyright laws protecting central London's famous red and black street signs are to be enforced.

Cartoonist to sue over Islam film

A controversial Danish cartoonist says he will sue the Dutch maker of an anti-Islam film over copyright.

Swedish court rules against ads

Sweden's Supreme Court rules that advertising breaks in films shown on TV violate the filmmakers' copyright.

Creativity at mercy of intellectual pirates

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Is Liquidation The Best Option?

The onset of globalization brought about an increase in the international flow of goods, services, capital, information, and technology. No one can ever predict how this rapid influx can affect a country’s currency, stock markets, and other aspects of its economy. It seems that volatility is inherently built into the economy of any country. As such, many sectors of society continue to be affected. One of them is the business sector as can be seen in the number of businesses that permanently close down and sell their companies or leave them in a non-working condition.

These affected businesses usually turn to liquidation as a last resort. Liquidation refers to process of converting a company’s assets like furniture, buildings, copyrights, and patents into cash. The cash is then used by the company to pay off its outstanding debts. There are three types of liquidation: member’s voluntary liquidation, creditor’s voluntary liquidation, and compulsory liquidation.

Member’s voluntary liquidation is when the owners of a company, meaning its shareholders, stockholders or partners, choose to liquidate their assets in order to settle their debts. In this kind of liquidation, the decision is based on the free will of the owners. Moreover, the amount that would be obtained from liquidating the assets is greater than the amount of the outstanding debt. This means that the company is solvent and that it will still gain something from the process.

Creditor’s voluntary liquidation is when the owners of a company choose to liquidate their assets in order to pay off outstanding debts. Unlike in member’s voluntary liquidation, the company owners have no choice but to resort to liquidation. Moreover, the amount of debts exceeds the amount they could get from liquidating their assets, meaning the company is insolvent. The company would thus not be able to benefit from it. In fact, there would still be a deficit since the entire amount of the debt would not be covered. This type of liquidation is the most common among the three.

Compulsory liquidation, unlike the other two types of liquidation, does not involve any decision-making by the owners of the company. This happens when a court declares the insolvency or bankruptcy of a company since it has no other way of paying off its obligations. It then orders a liquidator or receiver to analyze the assets of a company and decide on how to divide the proceeds in order to pay off the outstanding debts. Before compulsory liquidation takes place, the director ensures that all trading is ended so that the company would not get into more credit issues.

If a company perceives that it will get into a sticky situation in the future and that it will have a hard time clearing its debts, liquidation is a good solution, at least by resorting to it even before the court orders it to do so. By doing so, it will be able to avoid the stigma of compulsory liquidation. However, the most ideal solution is to prevent an imbalance in the credit standing of the company and keep it in control.

Property

Property investment is an ideal option if a person wants to expand his/her financial assets. The owner has the prerogative of updating the property as per his own wishes whilst having the exclusive right to use it whenever he wants for his own benefit.

Properties are of various types like personal property, real property and intellectual property. All movable properties are classified as personal properties whereas all immovable properties are termed as real property or real estate. The unique difference between the two types is that movable properties can depreciate with time whereas immovable properties do not. Stocks, bonds and other financial products fall under the category of abstract property which also comes under personal property.

Trademarks, copyrights and patents come under intellectual property rights. Any new invention or discovery, new mathematical or scientific theories, personal articles, poems and similar literary works, new artistic creation, or any new concepts or ideas used for developing a product by any company and many other things which have been created by an individual or a group of people or an organization become the intellectual property of the owner, and the owner has an exclusive right on it.

Property owners are provided legal rights to deal with their property as per their own liking. The owner is provided the liberty to sell, transfer or extract profit from their property, for example.

There are various provisions laid down by the law as to who should own a property. A mentally incapable person or a minor is generally not the owner. The provisions might be different in different countries but none are allowed to use the property to harm others.

Properties can be public or they can be private. Public property is owned by the state or by any community whereas private properties are owned by an individual or a group of persons or by a company. As per law, a company is an entity that has the right to own a property. Property can also be given on lease in case of real or personal property. When given on lease the lessee can use the property but cannot sell it and also the owners also generally do not have the right to compel you to leave the property before the lease expires. In case of intellectual property, the owner can grant licenses to others.

There are certain properties which do not have any owner but still they are protected by law. For instance the seawater and seafloor is not generally owned by anyone. Atmosphere of the earth, the outer space, the celestial bodies, other planets or galaxies and even the land in Antarctica is not owned by anybody. Though they do not have any owners, there are international laws and no one is allowed to harm these properties. As well, wild animals are state properties and are protected by the state.

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