COMPUTER ETHICS AND SECURITY
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND PRIVACY
Question
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Communications Decency Act (CDA)
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Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
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Child Online Protection Act (COPA)
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Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA)
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Detailed explanation-1: -They are separate forms of protection, but not mutually exclusive. A software invention, for example, could be protected under copyrights (how human expression authored computer-readable code), patents (a useful, novel, and non-obvious method, device, or system), or both.
Detailed explanation-2: -Unlike patents, the protection of intellectual property in the form of trade secrets does not require the disclosure of related information to relevant authorities. Trade secret protection has an advantage of not being limited in time and may continue indefinitely as long as the secret is not revealed to the public.
Detailed explanation-3: -Open source code is any program whose source code is made available for use or modification, as users or other developers see fit.