Internet Policy Issues and Digital Libraries' Management of Intellectual Property

2015 ◽  
pp. 890-901
Author(s):  
Adeyinka Tella ◽  
A. K. Afolabi
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Internet Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
Problems And Solutions

The policy issues posed by the Internet in different countries around the world do not seem to be very different. The Internet itself helps us realize this by allowing governments and citizens everywhere to share their problems and solutions. How different governments react to the Internet depends on the extent to which they are prepared to accept external influences. The continued growth of the Internet for personal, government, and business purposes is now being affected by a number of policy issues. The discussions in this chapter center on these various Internet policy issues. These are the issues of content on the Internet, equal access, copyright, and protection of intellectual property. The chapter also considers the emerging Internet policy issues such as privacy and security, and explores the basic principles for managing intellectual property in the digital environment and then suggests the tools for managing intellectual property by digital libraries.

Internet Policy Issues and Digital Libraries’ Management of Intellectual Property

2013 ◽  
pp. 272-284
Author(s):  
Adeyinka Tella ◽  
A. K. Afolabi
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Internet Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
Problems And Solutions

The policy issues posed by the Internet in different countries around the world do not seem to be very different. The Internet itself helps us realize this by allowing governments and citizens everywhere to share their problems and solutions. How different governments react to the Internet depends on the extent to which they are prepared to accept external influences. The continued growth of the Internet for personal, government, and business purposes is now being affected by a number of policy issues. The discussions in this chapter center on these various Internet policy issues. These are the issues of content on the Internet, equal access, copyright, and protection of intellectual property. The chapter also considers the emerging Internet policy issues such as privacy and security, and explores the basic principles for managing intellectual property in the digital environment and then suggests the tools for managing intellectual property by digital libraries.

An Examination of Global Municipal Government Privacy and Security Policies

2013 ◽  
pp. 102-114
Author(s):  
Aroon Manoharan ◽  
Marc Fudge
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Security Policies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Security Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Number Of Individuals

This chapter highlights the research findings of a longitudinal study of online privacy and security practices among global municipalities conducted in 2005 and 2007. As cities worldwide implement sophisticated e-government platforms to increasingly provide services online, many barriers still inhibit the adoption of such strategies by the citizen users, and one such factor is the availability of a comprehensive privacy policy. The survey examines cities throughout the world based upon their population size, the total number of individuals using the Internet, and the percentage of individuals using the Internet. Specifically, we examined if the website has a privacy or security policy, does the website utilize digital signatures and if the website has a policy addressing the use of cookies to track users. Overall, results indicate that cities are increasingly emphasizing on privacy and security policies with major improvements in 2007, along with significant changes in the top ranking cities in when compared to the 2005 study.

Draft Once; Deploy Everywhere? Contextualizing Digital Law and Brazil’s Marco Civil da Internet

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 431-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy T. Hoskins
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Recent History ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Internet Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Internet Law ◽  
Effective Transfer ◽  
Digital Law

On Congressional approval in 2014, Brazil’s charter of civil rights for the Internet, the Marco Civil da Internet, was widely acclaimed as a template for national Internet policy elsewhere in the world. This was the result of a phenomenon I dub “draft once; deploy everywhere,” a pervasive belief in the universality of Internet law. This presumption underpins multiple charters of Internet rights drafted by digital rights organizations and policymakers. By showing how the Marco Civil was bitterly contested by blocks of powerful actors, the role played by Brazil’s recent history of dictatorship as well as its status at the margins of the global digital economy, I problematize the Marco Civil’s status as a global blueprint. This matters because without proper contextualization, the effective transfer of Internet law across national jurisdictions will be harder to realize, and their democratic virtues will prove more elusive.

scholarly journals How inclusive is online education in India: Lessons from the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Navaneeth M S ◽  
Ismail Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Economic Disparities ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
The World ◽  
Education In India ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

Online education has acquired a renewed interest all over the world, due to the ravaging restrictions imposed by the Covid pandemic. In the Indian context, the question remains is that “is the online medium inclusive enough to be deemed a solution?” As classes shift online and pedagogy relies on technology, it becomes imperative to ensure that no one lags behind and education remains accessible to the last learner. The issue of universality of the access to the Internet in India mingles with various socio-economic disparities that hinder its progress. This paper attempts to analyse and bring forward the factors that may contribute to the stark contrasts with regards to the success of the online education scene in India, ranging from accessibility, gender, socio-economic factors to the policy issues.

Open Source Intellectual Property Rights

2011 ◽  
pp. 785-790
Author(s):  
Stewart T. Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Source Code ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World

The open source software movement exists as a loose collection of individuals, organizations, and philosophies roughly grouped under the intent of making software source code as widely available as possible (Raymond, 1998). While the movement as such can trace its roots back more than 30 years to the development of academic software, the Internet, the World Wide Web, and so forth, the popularization of the movement grew significantly from the mid-80s (Naughton, 2000).

scholarly journals Ch.9 Patents

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Correa Carlos Maria
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
National Level ◽  
Trips Agreement ◽  
Good Faith ◽  
Vienna Convention ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Patent Laws ◽  
The World

This chapter explores the issue of patentability. Article 27.1 of the Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement stipulates that ‘patents shall be available for any inventions’. As with most patent laws in the world, the Agreement does not define what an invention is. The plain wording of Article 27.1 suggests that Members have been left room to define ‘invention’ within their legal systems, in good faith, subject only to the application of the method of interpretation set out by the Vienna Convention. However, the interpretation of the obligation to patent ‘any inventions’ raises many important policy issues, such as the extent to which Members are bound to confer patents over discoveries, particularly over substances found in nature such as genes. Although Members can adopt a more expansive concept at the national level, they are not obliged to grant patents to what is not ordinarily considered an ‘invention’. Thus, they are not obliged to grant patents over genes.

Emerging Legal Trends on Hyperlinks and Meta-Tags

2013 ◽  
pp. 46-53
Author(s):  
Ameen Jauhar
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Commercial Exploitation ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
Copyright Violation ◽  
The World ◽  
Intellectual Property Infringement

Hyperlinks and meta-tags form two primary tools for Website designs. They are a convenient way to generate easy and faster connectivity on the World Wide Web. Hyperlinking techniques allow a quick retrieval of information, whereas meta-tags present a summarized understanding of the content and subject matter of the Website, thereby facilitating a more accurate list for search engines. That said, content is often hyperlinked or meta-tagged without permission or for abusive purpose. This has led to an increasing scale of litigation on grounds of unfair completion, anti-trade practices, and most recently, intellectual property infringement. Whether it is the dilution of a mark or a copyright violation through an unauthorized use of a meta-tag, the Internet, for its entire boon, has invoked an unprecedented era of technological misuse for commercial exploitation. The current chapter speaks on this facet from Indian and international perspectives.

Intellectual Property and the Internet

2008 ◽  
pp. 222-227
Author(s):  
Alexandra George
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Computer Networks ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Almost All

‘Intellectual property’ (or ‘IP’) is an umbrella term that is used as shorthand to describe a variety of diverse doctrines that create legally-enforceable monopolies over the use of or access to ideas, information and knowledge. As the Internet is essentially a structure through which such material can be presented, organised, transmitted and disseminated, IP is a key area of law that is used to regulate activity on the Internet. The pervasive significance of this becomes clear when one considers that much of the hardware that forms the framework of computer networks that comprise the Internet, and almost all of the data carried through these networks and linked via the World Wide Web, are—or have been in the past—subject to regulation by IP laws.

scholarly journals EQUAL ACCESS TO ICT IN EDUCATION – STRATEGIC TENDENCIES OF EDUCATION POLICY: PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oksana V. Ovcharuk
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Ict In Education ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
The World ◽  
Policy Problems ◽  
Internet Network

The article deals with the analysis of the problems of informatisation in education in the world. The equal access of pupils and teachers to the electronic means as well as to the Internet network are in the scope of the article. The author gives the information about the main problems and perspectives of ICT use in education sphere.

Internet topology measurements for identifying and understanding policy issues

Info ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 70-81
Author(s):  
Marnix Kaart ◽  
Jos Vrancken ◽  
Wim Vree
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Internet Topology ◽  
Fair Competition ◽  
Internet Policy ◽  
Insight Into

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to argue that insight into internet topology at various levels of aggregation is necessary for identifying and understanding policy issues in the areas of fair competition, reliability and performance in the internet.Design/methodology/approachUsing three areas of social concern in relation to the global information infrastructure as a context, the paper provides some theoretical examples, supported by case examples, which show the importance of gaining insight into internet topology.FindingsThe paper finds that proper detectors for internet policy are lacking and insight into the topology of the internet is needed. The only feasible way of obtaining this insight is by topology measurements, but still some fundamental pathologies in the available measurement tools and techniques need to be overcome. All internet topologies published to date suffer from these limitations and their use for identifying internet policy is limited.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper provides a general overview of importance and limitations. Future research should be focused on increasing the usability of internet topology by solving fundamental issues in the area of internet topology measurement.Practical implicationsThe availability of high‐quality internet topology maps at various levels of aggregation would dramatically improve one's ability to identify and understand certain policy issues in the internet.Originality/valueIn policy analysis it is often ignored that certain policy issues have their base in the internet infrastructure and knowledge of this infrastructure is limited. In internet topology research, focus is mainly on technical and operational issues and limited attention is given to the usability of inferred topology for identifying policy issues. Until now, an approach that addresses both fundamental topology research and internet policy issues in concordance has been lacking.

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