3.1COPYRIGHT

3.1COPYRIGHT

What Is Copyright? Copyright is the legal right given to the

owner of a copyright to prevent others from copying an artistic works, literary, dramatic or music work.

Only the copyright owner has the legal right to reproduce the work in any form and has the right to sue others who copy or distribute unauthorized work without the copyright owner’s permission.

The owner of copyright has the special right to do and authorize the following: To reproduce the work; To prepare copied works based upon the work; To distribute copies of the work to the

public by sale or transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;

To disallow other persons from using the work without permission; To carry out the work publicly.

3.1COPYRIGHT

3.1COPYRIGHT Copyright protection in Malaysia is governed by the

Copyright Act 1987. There is no system of registration for copyright in Malaysia. A work that is eligible is protected automatically upon fulfillment of the following conditions:- 

sufficient effort has been expected to make the work original in character;

the work has been written down, recorded or reduced to a material form; 

the author is qualified person or the work is made in Malaysia or the work is first published in Malaysia

Copyright symbol Abbreviated as (c) or ©.

GROUP DISSCUSSION

COPYRIGHT

THE EFFECTS OF COPYRIGHT VIOLATION

GROUP DISSCUSSION

1. The effects of copyright violation.

2. What is unethical?3. Examples of unethical

computer code of conducts

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ANSWER

UNETHICAL

Unethical refers to any code of conducts that are not conforming to approved standards of social or professional behaviour.

EXAMPLES OF UNETHICAL COMPUTER CODE OF CONDUCTS

selling information to other parties without the owner’s permission

using information without authorization involvement in stealing software invasion of privacy using the office computer to do personal

things reading your friend’s e-mail without his or

her permission plagiarising and using materials from the

Internet for your class assignment without giving credit to the original author.

EFFECT OF UNETHICAL USE OF COMPUTER

Respecting Ownership

Respecting Property

Respecting Privacy

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