The subject of ‘orphan works’ and ‘abandonware’ is gaining legal attention lately. It concerns the status of copyrighted works which are still within the term of protection but are no longer commercially available to the public. This paper examines the question of orphan works and abandonware from a law and economics perspective. Orphan works and abandonware are classified into five types depen...

The aim of digital forensics is to extract information to answer the 5Ws (Why, When, Where, What, and Who) from the data extracted from the evidence. In order to achieve this, most digital forensic processes assume absolute control of digital evidence. However, in a cloud environment forensic investigation, this is not always possible. Additionally, the unique characteristics of cloud computing...

In a major decision handed down last term (International Union [UAW] versus Johnson Controls, Inc.), the Supreme Court ruled that employment practices excluding fertile or pregnant women from the workplace because of alleged concerns for fetal health constitute illegal sex discrimination. We analyze the three opinions in the case and explain why the decision was an essential first step to promo...

Professor Majette's timely article examines an age-old problem: the effect of race and ethnicity on a patient's receipt of health care. Her article analyzes some of the major health care access issues, with a focus on barriers confronting African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans. Some of the barriers include inability to pay, cultural insensitivity, a shortage of health care p...

Finding creative solutions to ill-structured problems is integral to the work in many expert domains. A common flaw of software tools that support this kind of work is to support mainly the detailed specification of a selected solution. To extend this support to the other processes of ill-structured problem-solving, I propose ten design principles, synthesized from results in diverse fields of ...

Workplace bullying is a severe and pervasive problem. Workplace bullying has devastating effects on the targets of the bullying and is severely detrimental to the organizations within which the bullying occurs. Despite the severe and pervasive nature of workplace bullying there is no clear and adequate remedial path for targets to follow. However, there are a number of potential areas that shou...

Why Aging In Place Matters By Ryan Frederick EXECUTIVE SUMMARY “Aging in place” is becoming THE defining phenomenon both inside and outside of Seniors Housing. Aging in place refers to the desire of seniors to stay in a particular residential setting as long as possible, even as health care needs increase. Aging in place at one’s home, while already a stated preference among the vast majority...

The focus on governance, risk and compliance (GRC) is steadily increasing as companies are facing increased risk and a growing number of legal, regulatory and other compliance requirements. Enterprises start to emphasise the integration and automation of GRC activities in order to efficiently manage them. This research evaluates how integrated GRC and GRC software are perceived and applied in l...

Digital goods such as music are vulnerable to illegal use over the internet. Technology-driven IT solutions to protection are useful but limited. Instead, we suggest that incentives to legal forms of consumption can be constructed by redesigning how the e-business model for digital content creates consumer value. We present a general framework that enables a quantified utility analysis and clar...

Ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI) are widely recognised as important in IT innovation for crisis response and management. However, attention often struggles to get beyond theorising basic concepts, when the realities of how difficulties and opportunities manifest are complex and practical. Unless these realities are understood, solutions to ELSI will remain at the surface, missing opportu...