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Intellectual property rights (IPRs) are the rights that an individual or organisation has to their intellectual property.
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Copyright is When an author or an organisation sets a work in a physical form of expression, they have a copyright
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on it that prevents others from claiming its ownership.
A patent is a property right that an autonomous body (or a sovereign state) grants to the inventor for a specific
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amount of time.
A trademark is a distinctive symbol, pattern, or phrase that sets one source's goods and services apart from those
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of other sources.
Plagiarism When someone passes off the words, ideas, or expressions of another author as their own, it is an act
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of plagiarism.
Unauthorised use of a brand or service mark is known as trademark infringement.
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Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a way to control and limit access to intellectual property using technology.
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Open data is information that anyone can access, use, and share, possibly with the requirement that the source
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of the data be cited.
A licence is an agreement between a person or organisation that wants to use software and the company that
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owns it.
Proprietary licence will be able to use the software, but they do not have access to the source code and are not
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authorised to modify it.
Free and open-source software is software with publicly available source code.
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Open-source licences allow the user to modify the software and distribute the modified version.
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Creative Commons licences give content creators a standard way to let other people use their work.
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Under the General Public Licence (GPL), users can use, modify, and share the software.
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Apache is an open-source software project initiated by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
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Cybercrimes are crimes related to the misuse of resources available on the Internet.
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Information Technology Act 2000 to keep pace with information technology-related crime.
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Privacy law establishes the rules that regulate the collection, storage, and disclosure of a person's or organisation's
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financial, medical, and other personal information to third parties.
Cyberlaws are statutory provisions against various forms of cybercrime.
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Electronic products that are no longer needed, are broken, or have reached the end of their useful lives are called
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e-waste.
The e-waste includes smartphones, desktops, laptops, hard drives, cables, batteries, routers, switches, and hubs
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that are no longer required.
Lack of suitable instructional materials designed to meet the needs of students with disabilities adversely impacts
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the teaching and learning process.
Solved Exercise
A. Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of the following social network is majorly used for professional networking?
a. Facebook b. LinkedIn c. WhatsApp d. YouTube
2. Which of the following is a common platform for sharing videos with the masses?
a. Facebook b. LinkedIn c. WhatsApp d. YouTube
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