What is a Copyright? The copyright is established in the US Constitution. Copyright deals with the rights of an author or creator of an original work. Copyright does not protect many of the things people think it does. Copyright does not protect ideas, concepts, facts, names, titles, slogans, procedures or methods. Copyright only protects original works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Examples of tangible mediums of expression include photos, video recordings, audio recordings, written records, paintings and computer programs. Copyright protection starts as soon as the author or creator’s original work is fixed in one of the above tangible mediums of expression, and the author or creator then begins establishing common law rights. But, like with trademark, the work must be registered in order to be able to pursue alleged copyright infringers. I’m sure most of you are aware that photographs and videos have copyright protection, and ownership is attributed to the photographer or videographer. But copyright protection is also afforded to the text on your business website, or the language in your advertising and marketing material, whether or not you realized that when you wrote it.
What is a Trademark? Basically, a trademark is your
company’s brand. In more technical terms, a trademark is a word, name, symbol
or device that is used in commerce with a product to indicate the source of the
product and to distinguish it from the products of others. While
“trademark” is the most commonly used term, there is a distinction made for
words, names, symbols or devices used in trade to indicate the source of
a service, rather than a product, and these are called service marks. A trade name is
the term used to refer to a business’ name. “Trade dress” refers to the
appearance of a product or its packaging, when that appearance indicates the
source of the product.
What is a Patent? Patent is issued by the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). A patent is a set of rights given to an
inventor for a certain period of time. In order to receive this
protection, the inventor must show that the invention is new, non-obvious and
useful or industrially applicable. In
order to receive protection, the invention must be publicly disclosed, through
registration.
What is a Trade Secret?
A trade secret is basically your business’ confidential information. In
most states, this includes any formula, pattern, practice, physical device, design,
idea, process or compilation of information that provides the owner of the
information with a competitive advantage in the marketplace and treated in a
way that can reasonably be expected to prevent the public or competitors from
learning about it, absent improper acquisition or theft. Trade secrets can be
very important to your business, but are often overlooked or abused. You
cannot register your trade secrets the same way you can a trademark, copyright
or patent. Instead, your rights and protection relate specifically to
your ability to keep your secrets secret.
The
key intellectual property issues:
· Plagiarism
is theft and passing off of someone’s ideas or words as one’s own. Many
students do not understand what constitute plagiarism and they believe that all
electronic content is in the public domain.
· Reverse engineering is
a process of taking something apart in order to understand, build a copy of it
and improve it.
· Open source code
is made available
for use or modification as users or other developers see fit.
· Competitive intelligence is the
ethical gathering and analysis of competitor and market information from open
sources. This analysis is used by organizations to make better strategic
decisions.
Social
network is the mapping and measuring of relationships
and flows between people, groups, organizations, computers, URLs, and other
connected information/knowledge entities. The nodes in the network are the
people and groups while the links show relationships or flows between the
nodes. Social network provides both a visual and a mathematical analysis of
human relationships. To
understand networks and their participants, we evaluate the location
of actors in the network. Measuring the network location is finding the centrality of a node. These measures give us
insight into the various roles and groupings in a network who are the connectors,
mavens, leaders, bridges, isolates, where the clusters are and who is in them, who
is in the core of the network.
What
is a social networking web site? Social networking web site is a site whose
purpose is to create an online community of Internet users that enables members
to break down barriers created by time, distance and cultural differences. It
allow people o interact with others online by sharing opinions, insights,
information, interest and experience.
A social shopping web
site can brings shoppers
and sellers together in a social networking environment in which members can
share information and make recommendations while shopping online.
Social
Networking Ethical Issues when you have a community of tens of millions
of users, not everyone is going to be a good neighbor and abide by the rules of
the community. Many will stretch or exceed the bounds of generally accepted
behavior.
Cyberbullying is the harassment, torment, humiliation, or
threatening of one minor or group of minors via the internet or cell phone. Cyberstalking is threatening the behavior or unwanted
advances directed at an adult using the internet or other forms of online and
electronic communications. It is the adult version of cyberbullying.
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