Copyright Code: Ethics from a Legal Perspective
Executive Summary
The economic system of the United States is based on capitalism, a free and fair market that treats everyone equally. It protects customers from theft, fraud, and prevents other businesses from taking favorable positions and unfair advantage of their competitors. One of the essential ethical and legal prevention is Copyrights. It is considered as a protection from issues related to intellectual properties. Such Preventions is an assurance to many industries, from movie publishers, to computer software industries. In without copyright regulations, many businesses would be vulnerable to confidentiality, whether by competitors or consumers.
These days, almost all things are copyrighted the moment they are written, and no copyright notice is required. This is a brief list of the main points covered:
Copyright law is mostly civil law where the special rights of criminal defendants you hear so much about don 't apply. Watch out, however, as new laws are moving copyright violation into the criminal realm.
Copyright is still violated whether you charged money or not, only damages are affected by that.
Fair use is a complex doctrine meant to allow certain valuable social purposes.
Copyright is not lost because it’s not defended; that 's a concept from trademark law.
Copyright Act included the Information Technology industry protection, to extend it to computer programs, software, hardware, and sites
Keeping an eye on assets and intellectual properties is very vital to organizations and companies to enhance the professionalism of their staff and their awareness of federal regulations.
Copyrights owner have the:
Right to reproduce the work in copies.
Right to make and prepare derivative works based on copyrighted work.
Right to distribute the work in copies to the public. This can be done by sale or other transfer of ownership or by lease, rental, or lending.
Right to perform and display the work publicly.
The economic system of the United States is based on capitalism, a free and fair market that treats everyone equally. It protects customers from theft, fraud, and prevents other businesses from taking favorable positions and unfair advantage of their competitors. One of the essential ethical and legal prevention is Copyrights. It is considered as a protection from issues related to intellectual properties. Such Preventions is an assurance to many industries, from movie publishers, to computer software industries. In without copyright regulations, many businesses would be vulnerable to confidentiality, whether by competitors or consumers.
These days, almost all things are copyrighted the moment they are written, and no copyright notice is required. This is a brief list of the main points covered:
Copyright law is mostly civil law where the special rights of criminal defendants you hear so much about don 't apply. Watch out, however, as new laws are moving copyright violation into the criminal realm.
Copyright is still violated whether you charged money or not, only damages are affected by that.
Fair use is a complex doctrine meant to allow certain valuable social purposes.
Copyright is not lost because it’s not defended; that 's a concept from trademark law.
Copyright Act included the Information Technology industry protection, to extend it to computer programs, software, hardware, and sites
Keeping an eye on assets and intellectual properties is very vital to organizations and companies to enhance the professionalism of their staff and their awareness of federal regulations.
Copyrights owner have the:
Right to reproduce the work in copies.
Right to make and prepare derivative works based on copyrighted work.
Right to distribute the work in copies to the public. This can be done by sale or other transfer of ownership or by lease, rental, or lending.
Right to perform and display the work publicly.
References: 1.Mike, Markel. Technical Communication, eight edition 2.Mann & Roberts. Smith and Roberson “Business Law”, 13th edition. 3.Lawrence, M Hinman. Ethics, A pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory. 2nd Ed. 4.United States Copyright Office, www.Copyright.Gov 5.The Copyright Act of 1976 (amended 1994)