Ethics In Technology 3
Christopher W. Leary
AC0801859
PY 360 Ethics in Technology
Assignment 3
February 24, 2015
The United States Constitution affords Congress the authority in granting certain inventors, and authors unique rights to things they have created, however, they do not provide details on how the rights are protected. In todays world there are four ways individuals and entities protect their intellectual property and they are: trade secrecy, copyright, and patents.
Copyright is the legal protection given to published works, forbidding anyone but the author from publishing or selling them. Copyright covers published and also unpublished works. Copyright, a form of intellectual property law, protects the right to produce new works acquired from copyrighted work, the right to perform the work in public, to display copies of this work in public, the right to distribute copies in public, and the right to reproduce the copyrighted work (Quinn, Pg. 168). Copyright, however, does not protect ideas, systems, facts or methods of operation. Copyright may protect the way these things are expressed though. Copyright allows protection of people’s original works of authorship.
Trade Secrecy is defined as valuable commercial information that provides a business with an edge over competitors who do not have this information. Michael Quinn defines trade secrecy as “a trade secret is a confidential piece of intellectual property that provides a company with a competitive advantage.” (Quinn, Pg. 165). In general trade secrecy includes ideas, inventions or collection of data that’s used by businesses to make them successful. Trade secrecy includes useful formulas, patterns, plans, processes, programs, tools, techniques, mechanism, compound, or devices that are not generally known to the general public. Information that is represented by trade secrecy must take reasonable steps to protect it from being declared.
A patent is defined as a means in which the United States Government grants an
AC0801859
PY 360 Ethics in Technology
Assignment 3
February 24, 2015
The United States Constitution affords Congress the authority in granting certain inventors, and authors unique rights to things they have created, however, they do not provide details on how the rights are protected. In todays world there are four ways individuals and entities protect their intellectual property and they are: trade secrecy, copyright, and patents.
Copyright is the legal protection given to published works, forbidding anyone but the author from publishing or selling them. Copyright covers published and also unpublished works. Copyright, a form of intellectual property law, protects the right to produce new works acquired from copyrighted work, the right to perform the work in public, to display copies of this work in public, the right to distribute copies in public, and the right to reproduce the copyrighted work (Quinn, Pg. 168). Copyright, however, does not protect ideas, systems, facts or methods of operation. Copyright may protect the way these things are expressed though. Copyright allows protection of people’s original works of authorship.
Trade Secrecy is defined as valuable commercial information that provides a business with an edge over competitors who do not have this information. Michael Quinn defines trade secrecy as “a trade secret is a confidential piece of intellectual property that provides a company with a competitive advantage.” (Quinn, Pg. 165). In general trade secrecy includes ideas, inventions or collection of data that’s used by businesses to make them successful. Trade secrecy includes useful formulas, patterns, plans, processes, programs, tools, techniques, mechanism, compound, or devices that are not generally known to the general public. Information that is represented by trade secrecy must take reasonable steps to protect it from being declared.
A patent is defined as a means in which the United States Government grants an