Ethics in Technology
Course Number and Title: PY360 Ethics in Technology
Assignment Number and Title: Assignment 03
Date of Submission: 20 February, 2014
(1) Define copyright, trade secrecy, and patents as they relate to software.
Copyrights
Copyright is a form of protection in United States and is granted by law for original works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Copyright covers unpublished and published works. Copyright, a form of intellectual property law protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture. As stated by the author “Copyright is how the U.S. government provides authors with certain rights to original works that they have written.” Quinn. Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, while it may protect the way these things are expressed. Copyright protects original works of authorship.
Trade Secrets
Trade Secret is any valuable commercial, information that provides a business with an advantage over competitors who do not have that information. According to reading “a trade secret is a confidential piece of intellectual property that provides a company with a competitive advantage.” In general terms trade secrets include inventions, ideas, or compilations of data that are used by business to make it more successful. Specifically, trade secrets include any useful formula, plan, pattern, process, program, tool, technique, mechanism, compound, or device that is not generally known or obtainable by the public. Whatever type of information is represented by a trade secret, a business must take reasonable steps to safeguard it from disclosure.
Patents
A patent grants an inventor exclusive rights to make, use, sell, and import an invention for a limited period of time, in exchange for the public disclosure of the invention. An invention is a solution to a specific
Assignment Number and Title: Assignment 03
Date of Submission: 20 February, 2014
(1) Define copyright, trade secrecy, and patents as they relate to software.
Copyrights
Copyright is a form of protection in United States and is granted by law for original works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Copyright covers unpublished and published works. Copyright, a form of intellectual property law protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture. As stated by the author “Copyright is how the U.S. government provides authors with certain rights to original works that they have written.” Quinn. Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, while it may protect the way these things are expressed. Copyright protects original works of authorship.
Trade Secrets
Trade Secret is any valuable commercial, information that provides a business with an advantage over competitors who do not have that information. According to reading “a trade secret is a confidential piece of intellectual property that provides a company with a competitive advantage.” In general terms trade secrets include inventions, ideas, or compilations of data that are used by business to make it more successful. Specifically, trade secrets include any useful formula, plan, pattern, process, program, tool, technique, mechanism, compound, or device that is not generally known or obtainable by the public. Whatever type of information is represented by a trade secret, a business must take reasonable steps to safeguard it from disclosure.
Patents
A patent grants an inventor exclusive rights to make, use, sell, and import an invention for a limited period of time, in exchange for the public disclosure of the invention. An invention is a solution to a specific
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