Stephanie Majors's List: Digital Law

• Digital Law is defined as the electronic responsibility for actions, deeds which is either ethical or unethical. Digital responsibility deals with the ethics of technology. Unethical use manifests itself in form of theft and/or crime. Ethical manifests itself in the form of abiding by the laws of society." It is basically about what you are and are not allowed to do while surfing and using the Internet
• Examples of this behavior are like hacking into people’s personal details, pirate software, downloading music illegally and creating viruses or Trojan horses
• Identity theft
• Spoofing
• generally means to convince people to provide personal or financial information that lets the hacker commit credit card/bank fraud or other forms of identity theft.
• IP Spoofing"
• technique used to get access to computers, where the intruder sends a message to a computer with an IP address telling them that the message is coming from a trusted machine and person
• copying and selling of unauthorized computer software, movies etc.
• Software Piracy
• Industrial Piracy:
• Coporate Piracy
• Reseller Piracy:
• Home Piracy:
• Computer hacking
• practice of changing computer hardware and software.
• Computer hacking
• Digital law has both a positive and negative impact on people as individuals and communities as a whole. Digital Law sets laws to ensure safety and security online, and to protect peoples rights. It comes either ethically or unethically. It is unethical as in a crime or theft. It is ethical when people abide by the laws of society.

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• What is Digital Law?
• Digital Law deals with society’s behaviour with using technology.
• Some examples of what digital law deals with are plagiarism, illegal downloading of music, hacking and creating worms or viruses.

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• What's Digital Law?
• Digital Law relates to crimes of stealing or causing damage to other people’s work, identity, or digital property.
• • Stealing someone's identity is called identity theft. (Covered in Section #7, Digital Security.)
   
  • Stealing someone's digital property can be intellectual property theft, digital piracy, or plagiarism.
   
  • Causing damage to others would be crimes such as hacking or creating and sending viruses.

• Copyright:  Is the law that protects the rights held by the creator, developer, or author over their own original work. These works may consist of electronically stored words, photograph, music, work of visual art, or performance art and thereby includes digital property.

   

  Copyright Infringement (Violation):  Is when a person violates a copyright by either reproducing, adapting, publicly distributing, performing, or displaying a work without permission from the creator.

   

   

  Copyright law applies whether or not the material has a copyright notice symbol ©, which means it's been registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. (Copyright differs from Patents, which protect people's inventions, and from Trademarks ®, which protect brand names.)

   

  Two Types of Copyright Infringement:

   
   
  1. Digital Piracy:  Unauthorized reproducing (copying) and distributing (sharing) of digitized property: electronic files and audio-visual media. Obtaining copies of songs, computer software, videos games, and movies without paying for them is all considered Digital Piracy.
   
  2. Plagiarism: The copyright violation of using printed words, photos, or illustrations in your own product without permission - where one person copies another's work and uses it as their own. (More on Plagiarism is covered in topic #7: Digital Rights and Responsibilities.)

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• Digital Law can be defined as electronic responsibility for actions and deeds which is either ethical or unethical. Digital responsibility deals with the ethics of technology. Unethical use manifests itself in form of theft and/or crime. Ethical use manifests itself in the form of abiding by the laws of society.