The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Frank B. Cross, Roger LeRoy Miller
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Chapter 9, Problem 1IS
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Case summary:The person K publishes a cooking book which has recipes for food items. The person K designs a website for publicity and promotion of the book by incorporating the keywords of other cookbooks or cooking sites so that her website appears on the top of the search engine.
To find:Whether the person K has done some wrong by incorporating the keywords of other cooking sites.
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