CED102 (QUIZ)

• Intellectual Property Rights


  A category of property that include intangible creations of human intellect
• Intellectual Property


  Creations of the mind such as inventions, literary devices, and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and images used in commerce
• Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines

  • Administers and implements state policies in relation to intellectual property
• Republic Act 8293


  Defines intellectual property to include copyrights and related rights; trademarks and services marks; geographic indications; industrial designs; layout designs of integrated circuits; and protection of undisclosed information
• Copyrights


  • Use of performance of original works of literature, art, music, drama, or any other form of expression
  • Copyright refers to the legal right given to the owner of the original work or intellectual property
  • Primarily for artistic and literary creations including sculpture, choreographic creations, music, books, and software applications
• Guidelines on online use of copyrighted materials by Smaldino, Lowther and Russel (2012)
• The majority of content on the internet is copyrighted by default as soon as it's created and fixed in a tangible form
• An email is an original work, fixed in a tangible medium of expression that is covered by copyright
• Downloading an article from a newspaper's website, making copies, and distributing them to students prior to a class discussion is permissible following the current photocopying guidelines
• You cannot post students' essays, poems, or other works on the school website unless you have the permission of the students and their parents or guardians
• Educators should treat copyrighted materials from the internet the same way they do print formats
• Patents


  • The use, manufacture, or sale of inventions
  • Provide property rights on autonomous inventions
  • Protect inventors from cases of unauthorized parties producing, using, or selling their inventions
• Trademarks


  • The use of symbols, Words, names, pictures, designs or combinations thereof
  • Used by firms to identify products, brands, or services
  • Provide distinctions between products offered by different businesses
• Trade Secrets


  • The privacy of data, documents, formulas, or anything that is to be maintained as confidential information
  • Any valuable information that is not publicly known and which the owner has taken "reasonable" steps to maintain secrecy
  • Critical in the process of ensuring that a business remains competitive and that relevant corporate advantages are preserved
• Plagiarism


  An act of fraud; it involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward
• The expression of original ideas is considered intellectual property and is protected by copyright laws
• Acts considered plagiarism


  • Turning in someone else's work as your own
  • Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
  • Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
  • Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
  • Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
  • Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up most of your work, whether you give credit or not
• Examples of plagiarism involving media


  • Copying media (especially images) from other websites to paste them into your own papers or websites
  • Making a video using footage from others' videos or using copyrighted music as part of the soundtrack
  • Performing another person's copyrighted music (i.e., playing a cover)
  • Composing a piece of music that borrows heavily from another composition
• The legality of these situations would be dependent upon the intent and context within which they are produced
• The two safest approaches are to avoid them altogether or confirm the works' usage permissions and cite them properly