Intellectual Property, Nondisclosure agreements, Electronically Monitored Workplaces, And high level thinking questions.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Laws Generally speaking, intellectual property laws are safe guards for people such as inventors or artists. It means that if a person were to copy your idea, you could press charges and have proof that it was your idea, not theirs. So if you made a piece of art and you had a copy right or a trade mark, if someone were to copy you that would be a violation of the law and you could press charges. Witch usually if you press charges you can make a lot of money.

How and where to establish intellectual property. The most simple way to establish a copy right, trade mark, patent etc. is through the internet. There are multiple web sites for multiple counties to establish these rights that are very easy to access. Such rights must me established before you make the invention or before someone else files for a copyright. That’s where copyrights laws come in to play.

Electronically- Monitored Workplaces

Definition One company offers technology that claims to provide insight into individual employee behavior based on the trail of "digital footprints" created each day in the workplace. This behavioral modeling technology can piece together all of these electronic records to provide behavior patterns that employers may utilize to evaluate employee performance and conduct. For example, it might look for word patterns, changes in language or style, and communication patterns between individuals.

The Good The ability to monitor electronically use helps keep your employees off adult sites that display sexual content, as well as games, social networking, entertainment, shopping and auctions, sports, and external blogs. Employees are given some protection from computer and other forms of electronic monitoring under certain circumstances.

The Bad My employer’s electronic mail system has an option for marking messages as “private.” Are those messages protected?

Non-disclosure agreements

The Good Restricted access to third parties (public, hackers, etc.) Outlines confidential information between to the companies. Defines information that can or cannot be disclosed

The Bad Information not disclosed in the disclosure period is not considered confidential. Restrictions on the transfer of data. Usually angled to be a positive effect on only one party (or a company)

Definition A non-disclosure agreement is a legal contract between at least two parties that outlines confidential information that the parties wish to share with one another for certain purposes, but wish to restrict access to by third parties.

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