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An owner of a small publishing company allowed a friend who was starting a handmade soap business to load the publishing company's copy of Microsoft Word onto the friend's computer. This activity is

A) both legal and ethical.
B) caveat emptor.
C) illegal but ethical.
D) both illegal and unethical.
E) sanctioned by the Business Software Alliance since only one copy was transferred.

Microsoft Word

A popular word processing software developed by Microsoft, used for creating, editing, and formatting text documents.

Business Software Alliance

A trade group representing the global software industry in legal and policy issues, focusing on copyright piracy and software intellectual property rights.

Illegal

Activities or actions that are prohibited by law and subject to legal sanctions.

  • Understand the role of laws in shaping business ethics and ethical behavior.
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