Digital property rights

This presentation will describe about the digital property and their rights and issues.

1. COMPUTER APPLICATIONS CLASS X (Code 165) TOPIC: UNIT 3: Cyber Ethics : Digital Property Rights By HIMANSHU PATHAK

2. Contents Introduction Digital Property Digital Property rights Freedom of information Digital Divide

3. Digital Property Digital property  (or digital assets) refers to any information about you or created by you that exists in digital form, either online or on an electronic storage device . Digital Property refers to digital information such as database, internet accounts, cloud storage etc. Data are the files and information stored and used by computers (such as e–mails, word processing documents, spreadsheets, pictures, audio files, and movies).

4. Digital Property Rights Digital Property Rights refers to rights that grant access and control of digital information. Data , Internet accounts, and other rights in the digital environment, such as contractual and intellectual property rights are all referred to as digital property rights . Computers store and use data in the form of  emails ,  word processing documents ,  spreadsheets, photos, audio files, and movies , among other things. This information can be kept on the hard drive of a computer or on portable storage. The rights are owned by the individual or the organization hosting or displaying the data on the internet .

5. DPR Issues With content moving online, now a days  DPR or Digital Property rights  has become common. It refers to individual rights on digital assets or information available online. E.g. online accounts, e-mail accounts, photos, videos, blogs or websites etc. There are various threats that we see on digital properties online. First of them is  Plagiarism . This effectively means stealing someone else’s intellectual work and presenting as your own. Then there is  Infringement.  This could be copyright, patent or trademark infringement. It is basically unauthorized use of someone’s IP for e.g. hackers using  cracks and keygens   to penetrate license system .

6. Plagiarism Plagiarism is copying of another person's ideas and other works while pretending that they are one's own. Following are the ways to avoid plagiarism: Paraphrase : is a way to express someone’s idea in own words. Quoting : is a way in which a source is quoted exactly in its original way but within “block quotes”. Citing : is a way in which at the bottom of the very page, details such as author’s name, date of publication etc. are mentioned while using someone’s work. Referencing : is a way in which at the end of the document, details such as author’s name, date of publication etc. are mentioned while using someone’s work.

7. Infringement Patent infringement  is the commission of a prohibited act with respect to a patented invention without permission from the patent holder . Copyright infringement occurs when a copyrighted work is reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly displayed, or made into a derivative work without the permission of the copyright owner . Trademark infringement  is defined as the unauthorized use of a trademark or service mark.

8. How to be safe? There are various steps you can take to protect your digital properties. First is to deploy  Anti Tamper software  or solutions. It prevents hackers from manipulating or reverse engineering your digital properties Other option is to have a tight  Term of service  to be included while sharing your software so that you have a good legal backup. The third option is to limit sharing by deploying a Digital Rights management software.

9. Freedom of Information Freedom of information  is freedom of a person or people to publish and consume information. It is an important act that allows people to exercise their basic Fundamental Right which is the Right to Freedom of speech and expression . It refers to the right to privacy in the context of the information technology. It is a recognized legal right as per Article 21 of Indian Constitution.

10. Digital Divide Digital Divide is an uneven distribution in the access to and use of information and communication technologies among various groups. This technology may include the telephone, television, personal computers and the Internet. The major factors that are responsible for it are: cost of technology, lack of skills, lack of education, lack of information, access for the disabled, and low-performance computers.

11. Summary We learned: Digital Property Digital Property rights and its issues. In the next class, we will start Unit III – Cyber Ethics: E-commerce in detail. Thanks