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Ø   Data protection is defending sensitive information against loss, tampering, or corruption.
              Ø   Intellectual property rights (IPRs) are the rights that an individual or organisation has to their intellectual
                  property.
              Ø   Copyright is When an author or an organisation sets a work in a physical form of expression, they have a
                  copyright on it that prevents others from claiming its ownership.
              Ø   A patent is a property right that an autonomous body (or a sovereign state) grants to the inventor for a
                  specific amount of time.

              Ø   A trademark is a distinctive symbol, pattern, or phrase that sets one source’s goods and services apart from
                  those of other sources.
              Ø   When someone passes off the words, ideas, or expressions of another author as their own, it is an act of
                  plagiarism.
              Ø   Unauthorised use of a brand or service mark is known as trademark infringement.

              Ø   Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a way to control and limit access to intellectual property using technology.
              Ø   Open data is information that anyone can access, use, and share, possibly with the requirement that the
                  source of the data be cited.
              Ø   A licence is an agreement between a person or organisation that wants to use software and the company
                  that owns it.
              Ø   Proprietary licence will be able to use the software, but they do not have access to the source code and are
                  not authorised to modify it.
              Ø   Free and open-source software is software with publicly available source code.

              Ø   Open-source licences allow the user to modify the software and distribute the modified version.
              Ø   Creative Commons licences give content creators a standard way to let other people use their work.
              Ø   Under the General Public Licence (GPL), users can use, modify, and share the software.

              Ø   Apache is an open-source software project initiated by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
              Ø   Cybercrimes are crimes related to the misuse of resources available on the Internet.
              Ø   Information Technology Act 2000 to keep pace with information technology-related crime.
              Ø   Privacy  law  establishes  the  rules  that  regulate  the  collection,  storage,  and  disclosure  of  a  person’s  or
                  organisation’s financial, medical, and other personal information to third parties.

              Ø   Cyberlaws are statutory provisions against various forms of cybercrime.
              Ø   Electronic products that are no longer needed, are broken, or have reached the end of their useful lives are
                  called e-waste.
              Ø   The e-waste includes smartphones, desktops, laptops, hard drives, cables, batteries, routers, switches, and
                  hubs that are no longer required.

              Ø   Lack of suitable instructional materials designed to meet the needs of students with disabilities adversely
                  impacts the teaching and learning process.














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