1. How would you define intellectual property?
2. Have you ever plagiarized material for an essay, project or proposal? Is this common practice? Do you think it is wrong? Why or why not?
3. What can be done to curb the pirating of intellectual property?
4. Sometimes copyrighting intellectual property can become ridiculous, as when McDonald’s tried to prevent other companies from using the prefixes ‘Mc’ or ‘Mac’. What do you think?
5. What are (or will be) the best things about being independent? What is or will be, the downside?