Introduction to Articles from the Third Annual Information Ethics Roundtable on Intellectual Property

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-18
Author(s):  
Kay Mathiesen
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Information Ethics ◽  
The Third

scholarly journals Digital Library and Intellectual Issues—Issues in Copyright and Intellectual Property

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Mohammad Niqresh
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Web

The study aims at identifying the concept of digital library, it also tries to shed the light on the most significant intellectual issues by presenting its definition, development, functions (selection and acquisition of information resources from the web, sources indexing, communication and management of intellectual property rights, production of electronic resources and its availability, and digital resources maintaining), characteristics, and the purpose of turning into digital library, passed by the proposed stages of digital library transition, Types of Intellectual Property (Copyright, Patents, Trademarks, Commercial Secrets), it also discusses copyrights and intellectual property, the problems and challenges of digital library, and finally the future of digital library. Many researchers agree that the main objective of the digital library is to accomplish all the functions of the traditional library, but in the form of electronic digital libraries which are only an extension for jobs that are performed and the resources that are accessible in digital library. The study concluded that digital libraries emerged as an obligatory result of revolution of the third millennium which is called the communications revolution, as libraries are able to prove that they are able to stand and cope with all the modern technology, where there is no conflict between the new and modern trends in libraries issue, but it also benefits from both of them concerning their evolution instruments in service for beneficiaries in every time and place.

The information ethics perception gaps between Chinese and American students

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 473-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Ling-hsing Chang ◽  
Jim Q. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Information Ethics ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Espoused Theory ◽  
American Students ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the impact of Chinese culture on the information ethics perception gaps between Chinese and American students. Design/methodology/approach Using a qualitative approach, this study utilizes Kohlberg’s Cognitive Moral Development model and an open-ended questionnaire to measure and analyze the gaps among information ethics perceptions of students from Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, and the USA, and to assess the extent to which the gaps are influenced by Chinese culture. Findings Students’ perceptions of intellectual property, information accuracy, privacy, and accessibility (PAPA) are deeply influenced by national culture. Sub-cultures have significant impact on the perceptions. Political systems, history, and legal environment may also play a role in the differences of PAPA perceptions among the three Chinese societies. The study also revealed that accuracy and intellectual property are the most deficient areas of moral developments in both Chinese and American samples. Research limitations/implications The sample sizes from Hong Kong and the USA were relatively small due to resource and time constraints. In addition, the subjects from Hong Kong and the USA were a little bit older than the subjects from Taiwan and Mainland China due to the fact that universities in HK and USA tend to have more non-traditional students than in universities in Mainland China and Taiwan. Second, the questionnaire is a limited means of studying moral reasoning because the results are likely to reflect espoused theory rather than theory-in-use. Practical implications The educational implication of this study calls for a renewed approach to educate students on the importance of information ethics for the sake of sustained economic development. Originality/value The novelty of this research lies in its interpretation of students’ PAPA perceptions and fresh insights from a Chinese guanxi perspective.

Is Information Ethics Culture-Relative?

2009 ◽  
pp. 154-167
Author(s):  
Philip Brey
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Information Ethics ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Cultural Relativity ◽  
Moral Claims ◽  
Different Cultures

In this article, I examine whether information ethics is culture relative. If it is, different approaches to information ethics are required in different cultures and societies. This would have major implications for the current, predominantly Western approach to information ethics. If it is not, there must be concepts and principles of information ethics that have universal validity. What would they be? The descriptive evidence is for the cultural relativity of information ethics will be studied by examining cultural differences between ethical attitudes towards privacy, freedom of information, and intellectual property rights in Western and non-Western cultures. I then analyze what the implications of these findings are for the metaethical question of whether moral claims must be justified differently in different cultures. Finally, I evaluate what the implications are for the practice of information ethics in a cross-cultural context.

How Fair is Patent Litigation in China? Evidence from the Beijing Courts

2019 ◽  
Vol 241 ◽  
pp. 247-261
Author(s):  
Chenguo Zhang ◽  
Jin Cao
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Patent Law ◽  
Intellectual Property Right ◽  
Patent Litigation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Upper Limit ◽  
Chinese Patent ◽  
The Right ◽  
Trade Partners

AbstractBy conducting field research and analysing judgments delivered in Beijing courts from 2004 to 2011, we find that the popular notion held by China's trade partners of the inadequacy of intellectual property protection is only partly supported by the empirical evidence. The likelihood of winning lawsuits is higher for foreign than domestic plaintiffs and the extremely low damages ruled by Chinese courts are due to particular causes. Courts lack consistent methods to calculate incurred losses in intellectual property right (IPR) infringements and consequently routinely apply the statutory damages whose upper limit is restricted by legislation. Efforts by Chinese legislators to enhance compensation by lifting the upper limit of awardable statutory damages in the Third Amendment of Chinese Patent Law (2008) did not seem to have an effect on our sample. Chinese policymakers should instead focus on the cause of the issue by providing more implementable guidelines for courts to calculate losses. Courts need to develop applicable conventions for calculating damages, based on objective criteria of how much compensation ought to be payable, which is also the basis of calculating reasonable statutory damages. Thus, the new provision of the “right of information” on pirated goods proposed by the ongoing Fourth Amendment provides a significant weapon to combat counterfeiting.

scholarly journals Protecting students' intellectual property in the web plagiarism detection process

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Butakov ◽  
Vadim Dyagilev ◽  
Alexander Tskhay
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Party System ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Plagiarism Detection ◽  
The Third ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Third Party ◽  
The University ◽  
Plagiarism Detection Services

<p class="AbstractText">Learning management systems (LMS) play a central role in communications in online and distance education. In the digital era, with all the information now accessible at students’ fingertips, plagiarism detection services (PDS) have become a must-have part of LMS. Such integration provides a seamless experience for users, allowing PDS to check submitted digital artifacts without any noticeable effort by either professor or student. In most such systems, to compare a submitted work with possible sources on the Internet, the university transfers the student’s submission to a third-party service. Such an approach is often criticized by students, who regard this process as a violation of copyright law. To address this issue, this paper outlines an improved approach for PDS development that should allow universities to avoid such criticism. The major proposed alteration of the mainstream architecture is to move document preprocessing and search result clarification from the third-party system back to the university system. The proposed architecture changes would allow schools to submit only limited information to the third party and avoid criticism about intellectual property violation. <br /><br /></p>

scholarly journals On Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage in China from the Intellectual Property Rights Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Lin ◽  
Zheng Lian
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Patent Protection ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Third ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
Protection Mode ◽  
Ipr Protection

With the development of globalization, intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has come under increasing threat, making the safeguarding of ICH a crucial task for the governments and peoples of the world. This paper examines China’s current state of intellectual property (IPR) protection for ICH and proposes that ICH be placed under China’s legislative protection as intellectual property. Due to the immense diversity and complexity of ICH and the difficulty in reconciling various interests involved, the existing IPR protection mode faces many obstacles in practice. We present two case studies and three sets of recommendations on improving the protection of ICH in China. The first set relies on improving copyright protection for ICH, the second set relies on improving trademark and geographical protection for ICH, and the third set relies on improving patent protection for ICH.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

1996 ◽  
Vol 04 (03) ◽  
pp. 267-285
Author(s):  
FRANCIS W. RUSHING ◽  
MARK A. THOMPSON
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Intellectual Property Protection ◽  
Economic Literature ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Impact

This paper brings together the importance of intellectual property protection (IPP) and entrepreneurship in economic growth. The paper surveys the economic literature on what factors are important to growth. The focus is on recent models of endogenous growth which reflect on the role of investment, technological change and education. Secondly, publications, which measure the impact of IPP on some of the growth elements identified are reviewed. The third section deals with IPP and the entrepreneur as an important agent and facilitator of growth. It discusses the nature of IPP as an incentive in not only stimulating the development of new technologies and processes but also the dissemination of existing technologies. Using the surveys as background, short case studies for India and Brazil are presented on IPP as a stimulus and application of research and development. The last section summarizes the previous sections and draws some conclusions with respect to policy.

scholarly journals A PEER REVIEWED ONLINE COMPUTATIONAL MODELING FRAMEWORK

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter J. Mosterman ◽  
Don Bouldin ◽  
Andrzej Rucinski
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Computational Modeling ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Computational Simulation ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Quality Requirements ◽  
The Third ◽  
Model Based

Along with theory and experimentation, computational simulation has become the third pillar of scientific discovery. While in industry computational modeling has seen application at an enterprise-wide level in the context of Model-Based Design, in academia models are typically still limited to isolated use by specialists. Once a project is completed, the intellectual property embodied by the model is lost. To harness the effort spent, a networked repository is proposed that stores peer-reviewed models. These models are evaluated whether they adhere to a set of quality requirements so they capture intrinsic value. This would facilitate the type of multi-disciplinary collaboration that is required to engineer the systems that have emerged and that continue to gain in importance. This work puts forward an outline of such a peer-reviewed online repository.

scholarly journals Secreto, lenguaje y memoria en la sociedad de la información

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
Rafael Capurro ◽  
Raquel Capurro
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Information Ethics ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Third ◽  
Digital Network ◽  
Psychoanalytic Perspective ◽  
Concept Of Information ◽  
The Relationship

This dialogue between a psychoanalyst (Raquel Capurro) and a specialist in information ethics (Rafael Capurro) deals with the relationship between secrecy, language and memory in the information society. The first part addresses the present debate on privacy and the Internet from a psychoanalytic perspective (Freud, Lacan), taking into consideration the relationship between language and memory. The second part deals with the concept of secrecy with regard to oblivion and censorship in the context of the digital network as a space in which seemingly anyone can tell anything to everybody. The question of “what cannot be said” is posed from a psychoanalytic perspective. The third part explores the relationship between memory and secrecy. Secrecy is defined as a “dispositif of exclusion.” The concept of “information society” is contrasted to a “society of secrecy”. This strategy opens a debate about the question of secrecy in the information society that might also help to disambiguate this concept when applied to concrete situations and spheres in which the question of where to draw the line arises.

History of development of commercial secrets in the Azerbaijan legal system

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (01) ◽  
pp. 168-171
Author(s):  
Natig Elmaddin Ibrahimov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
State Structure ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
Commercially Important ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Second Period

The process of gaining the importance of commercially important information in civil circulation has come a long way. The protection and disclosure of commercial secrets, which are among the objects of intellectual property, are becoming increasingly important for the legislation of Azerbaijan. The historical development of commercial secrets in Azerbaijan is closely related to the legislation of the Russian Empire. This was due to historical events. The history of the development of commercial secrets in Azerbaijan can be divided into several stages. The first stage is the feudal period, state structure and legal regulation of this period. The second period covers the period from 1861 to 1917. The third period covers the period from 1917 to 1991. The fourth period covers the period after 1991, the "restoration of capitalism". Nowdays, the protection of commercial secrets comes to the fore in connection with the relevance of globalization, integration and dynamic development of information resources, as well as the emergence of new obstacles and difficulties in legal regulation. Key words: commercial secrets, intellectual property law, Azerbaijani legislation, civil law, Tsarist Russia (Russian Empire), USSR, Azerbaijan SSR

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