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INFORMATION PRIVACY

Information privacy is the right to determine when and to what


extent information about oneself can be communicated to others
or the protection of info and data methods towards unwanted gain
access to or perhaps adjustment of information, regardless of
whether kept in storage, processing, as well as passage

Ethical issues related to information technology

1. Privacy: Piracy is an activity in which the creation of


illegal copy of the software is made. It is entirely up to
the owner of the software as to whether or not users can
make backup copies of their software.
2. Patents: Patent allows the creator of certain kinds of
inventions that contain new ideas to keep others from
making commercial use of those ideas without the creator's
permission.

3. Copyright: is a federal protection from unauthorized


copying or performance given to the authors of original
works of authorship.

4. Access Right

5. Security Liability

PRINCIPLES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Copyright

Copyright: is a federal protection from unauthorized copying or


performance given to the authors of original works of
authorship.

Trademarks

Trademarks and service marks: are applied to a manufacturer's or


a seller's products and services to distinguish them in the
marketplace. A trademark or service mark prevents another person
from offering a similar product or service confusingly similar
to yours. If you don't register your trademark, you may be
prohibited from using it by someone who has.

Patent

A patent: is a right to exclude others from making, using or


selling a claimed invention throughout a country. Patent allows
the creator of certain kinds of inventions that contain new
ideas to keep others from making commercial use of those ideas
without the creator's permission.

Trade secret law

Trade secret law: prevents those who are under a legal duty from
disclosing trade secrets and other confidential and proprietary
information to any third party who does not have a right to know
the information. Trade secrets protect valuable secret
information like ideas that must be kept confidential

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