Chapter 18 Intellectual Property and Data Security

Differentiation in leaps.

Intellectual Property (IP)

Piracy

ValuesEnforced, imposed, and self-driven.

It is clear that the speed of technological development has outpaced the legal system. Protecting intellectual property rights and collecting dues from the copyright users promise to be challenging issues. The damage that can be inflicted with a photocopy machine can be vastly surpassed by the degree of potential copyright infringement online. Countless copies of anything digital, be it a book, a TV or computer program, or a piece of music, can be made by anyone with a computer. The digital version can be sent to friends or a bulletin board system (BBS) for downloading by anyone ...

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