Internet Professional's Guide to
Intellectual Property, Privacy, and Ethics

Module A14c

Contents

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Audience:

This is for students pursuing the Internet Professional certification at Washtenaw Community College, and others interested in details of some legal and ethical issues impinging on the Internet.

Objectives

When you successfully complete this lesson, you will be able to...
  1. Describe copyright law and its relationship to the Internet
  2. Define and list four categories of fair use according to copyright law
  3. Describe copyright ownership and state four rights of ownership
  4. State the duration of copyright
  5. Describe when a work enters the public domain
  6. Define trademark and its relationship to the Internet
  7. Describe issues pertaining to privacy and the Internet, including E-mail, E-commerce, Cross-reference directories, and Newsgroups.
  8. Explain Internet ethics as it applies to E-mail, spamming, inappropriate material, free speech and open communication.



About this document...

Module A14c: Internet Professional's Guide to Intellectual Property, Privacy, and Ethics

This document is part of a modular instruction series from Washtenaw Community College. For more information, see the overview or the list of modules in this series, A: Social and Ethical Issues. This document has been used in the following classes: INP 160.
Compiled by Laurence J. Krieg; Content written by Sandra McCarthy.
Institution:
Division of Learning Resources, Washtenaw Community College
History:
Original: 18 Feb 2000; last update Monday, 31-Aug-2009 11:47:55 EDT
Copyright:
Copyright © 2001, Sandra McCarthy.

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Students: you may make a copy for your personal use.
All other uses: contact the author, Sandra McCarthy, for permission.