Chapter 24

Legal Issues and Ethics

Lab Exercises

24.01   ACM Ethics

24.02   USENIX Ethics

24.03   Ethical Scenarios

24.04   Copyright

24.05   Creative Commons

24.06   FSF and GNU

Lab Analysis

Key Term Quiz

Ethics and morals both relate to “right” and “wrong” conduct. Ethics are a set of principles of conduct that apply to an individual or a group and are provided by an external source, such as society or a profession. Morals, on the other hand, are an individual’s own principles regarding right and wrong.

Here are four well-known ethical standards:

•   Rights Individuals’ basic needs and welfare

•   Justice How the costs and benefits of an action or a policy can be distributed fairly among members of a group

•   Utility The positive and negative ...

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