Week 12: Ethical, Social and Legal Issues

What is Intellectual Property Rights?

  • Refers to creations of the mind, original creative works from the creators-software, applications, systems, websites, etc. 
  • IP is protected in law by, for example, patents, copyright and trademarks, which enable people to earn recognition or financial benefit from what they invent or create. 
What is Copyrights? 




Copyrights: fair use
  • Permission must be obtained to use a copyrighted material from the copyright holder (and pay any required fee)
  • Exception: concept of fair use which permits limited duplication and use of a portion of copyrighted material for special purposes, such as teaching, research, news reporting, commentary, criticism. 
Trademarks
  • A trade marks is a sign which distinguishes the goods and services of one trader from those of another. 
  •  A mark includes words, logos, pictures, names, letters, numbers, or a combination of these. 
  • A trade mark is used as marketing tool to enable customers in recognising the product of a particular trader. 





Patents



What are Cyberlaws in Malaysia?



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