Intellectual Property Rights Policy

Discuss about the Intellectual Property Rights Policy.

Introduction:

Before writing, the Journal on the provided topic Ethics in Information Technology my perception about the topic is very different from what I have learned. In my learning section in week 5, I have been taught about Freedom of Expression, the new thing that I come to know in the topic is that the first amendment that was made is related to the rights to freedom of expression, freedom of religion and freedom of speech but the freedom of expression do not protect fraud and perjury, obscene and defamation speech, sedition and fighting words and incitement to crime and incitement of panic (Belanger and Crossler, 2011). The freedom of expression also controls the access to information on the internet that includes communication decency act, telecommunication act and child online protection act. In the week 6, I have been taught the topic related to intellectual property. While reading the topic I come to know that the Intellectual property rights cover the copyright act 1968, trademark acts 1995, patent and plant breeder’s rights act 1994. In the topic further, I have taught the measures for the protection of intellectual property such as WTO TRIPS agreements 1994 under this the WTO has developed and TRIPS agreement to form less number of level of protection that every government should provide to the intellectual property.  Moreover, GATT governs the multilateral trade agreements, PRO-IP act 2008, is developed to increased trademark and copyright substantially and enforcement and increased penalties for infringement (Acemoglu and Akcigit, 2012).  In addition, I learned about WIPO copyrights treaty 1996 that is developed to enhance the use of intellectual property right to encourage individuations to more creative and innovative and come to know about DMCA this developed to meet the demands of the digital age and to implement the WIPO treaty.

In the 7th week, I have come to know about the topic software development, in this topic I learned about how the in the present world the companies are providing their focus on availing high-quality software system. It was comely seen the business world that the software is playing an important role because the quality of software will help the business in fulfilling their needs but if any defect is been found out in the software will fail the whole system (Mehta, Hall and Byrd, 2014).  In the 8 week, I have been taught impact of technology on quality and productivity of life in this topic various facts related to the use of technology was been discussed such as the technology will enhance the living standards and productivity at work, it reduces the cost and improves the quality of healthcare (Buntin, Burke, Hoaglin,  and Blumenthal, 2011).    

As an It professional this topic is defiantly going to help me in future by reading this topic I come to know about the rights that are been given by the government to the general public that is right of expression with that I also come to know about the rights related to intellectual property. In addition, I come to know that in the present world how software is become very important and in my career that is going to provide me various opportunities and I will try to enhance my ability to overcome the negative impact of the technology and will surely utilise the positive impact.

References

Acemoglu, D. and Akcigit, U. (2012) Intellectual property rights policy, competition and innovation. Journal of the European Economic Association, 10(1), pp.1-42.

Belanger, F., and Crossler, R. E. (2011) Privacy in the digital age: a review of information privacy research in information systems. Journal of MIS quarterly, 35(4), 1017-1042.

Buntin, M.B., Burke, M.F., Hoaglin, M.C. and Blumenthal, D. (2011) The benefits of health information technology: a review of the recent literature shows predominantly positive results. Journal of Health affairs, 30(3), pp.464-471.

Mehta, N., Hall, D. and Byrd, T. (2014) Information technology and knowledge in software development teams: The role of project uncertainty. Journal of Information & Management, 51(4), pp.417-429.