Society Law and ethics

COMPUTER ETHICS-

 Computer ethics are a set of moral standards

that govern the use of computers.  It is society’s
views about the use of computers, both hardware
and software. 
 It is  concerned with how computing
professionals should make decisions regarding
professional and social conduct.
Ethical issues

• Intellectual Property Right

• Plagiarism
• Digital Property Right
 IP

Possession of something to which owner

has legal rights
Eg:-literary,artistic works,invention
copyright

 Legal concept enacted by governments giving the creator of

original work exclusive right to it.
Plagiarism

• Copying someone else work and then passing it off as ones own.
• It is an act of stealing
• It involves lying,cheating,theft and dishonesty
 PLAGIARISM

ACCIDENTAL/ DELIBERATE/
UNINTENTIONAL INTENTIONAL
ACCIDENTAL/UNINTENTIONAL

 Careless paraphrasing ie changing

the words or sentence construction
of a copied document ,quoting text
excessively with poor
documentation .
DELIBERATE/
INTENTIONAL
 Copying someone else work ,cutting and
pasting blocks of text or any kind of
media from electronic sources without
documenting and publishing it on the web
To avoid Plagiarism

 Use your own words and ideas

 Always provide reference to the source
 We must give credit whenever you use
 another persons idea or opinion
 Quotations of another persons words
 Paraphrase of another persons words
PLAGIARISM IS AN OFFENCE
Digital Property Right

 Digital Property is any information about you or created by you

that exists in digital form either online or an electronic storage
device
 All digital property is known as digital estates
 Egs;-email accounts,online storage accounts,photo and video
sharing accounts,blogs
 Only the owner can use and decide who all and in what form can
his /her digital asset may be used by others.
 It can be accessed by buying it,obtaining license or usage rights
Threats to digital properties

 Digital software penetration tools

 Stealing and plagiarizing codes of your digital properties
Digital property right protection

 Anti temper solutions

 Legal clauses
 Limit the sharing of software code
Digital Rights Management

 Term for access control technologies that are used by hardware

manufacturers,publishers copyright holders and individuals to
limit the use of digital content and devices
 It controls use of digital media by preventing access,copying or
conversion of other formats by end users
 Apple iTunes Store,e-book publishers have implemented DRM
 It is commonly used in film industry