Outline
I. Legal Issues
- Brief overview of legal issues related to the Internet.
- Definition of intellectual property.
- Outline of legal development and current status of copyright laws. (Will
include discussion of licenses, fair use, plagiarism, etc.)
- Evolving copyright issues relating to the Internet.
- Survey of computer crimes relating to intellectual property.
- Privacy issues and web management
II. Ethical Issues
- Definition of ethics and ethical responsibility.
- Ethical aspects of web management (privacy, mass emails, hacking, etc.)
- Computer ethics resources on the web.
- Ethics case studies (public access web sites which use case studies to illustrate
ethical problems relating to the web will be linked to enable students to
use the cases for study.)
Each of the two sections will be followed by a set of self assessment questions
for which answers or possible approaches to solutions will be available. Each
topic will also, when relevant, be linked to appropriate sites on the web.
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