1. What should Mary do?
2. What is the difference between real property and intellectual property? Does intellectual property deserve the legal protection we give real property? Why or why not?
3. Suppose Mary were the IS Director for a company with 500 employees. She has a tight budget and needs to install some new software on 50 PCs. She can buy 50 copies of the software or just buy one copy and install it on all 50 machines. Is this different from Mary’s previous situation? How?

Mary Morrison, a second-semester sophomore business major at Big State University, was unpacking the new PC that her family had given her for Christmas when she discovered that, except for the Windows operating system, no software was included with the machine. Although the new PC was an adequate computer, it was an inexpensive machine, and one way that the store kept the price low was to not include software. Mary was concerned because she knew that she would need a good word processor, a spreadsheet program, and some presentation software, and she thought that this software would be included with the computer.