What is intellectual property?
These are legal property rights over creations of the mind, both artistic and commercial, and the corresponding fields of law. Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; ideas, discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs. Common types of intellectual property include copyrights, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights and trade secrets.
The majority of intellectual property rights provide creators of original works economic incentive to develop and share ideas through a form of temporary monopoly.
Although many of the legal principles governing intellectual property have evolved over centuries, it was not until the late 20th century that the term intellectual property began to be used as a unifying concept.

What are intellectual property rights?
Intellectual property rights are the rights given to persons over the creations of their minds. They usually give the creator an exclusive right over the use of his/her creation for a certain period of time.

1.Cyber terrorist - a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism.

2.Perpetrator - The entity from the external environment that is taken to be the cause of a risk. An entity in the external environment that performs an attack, ie hacker.

3. Cyber criminal - are persons that committed crime using a computer and the internet to steal a person's identity or sell contraband or stalk victims or disrupt operations with malevolent programs.


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Are Information Technology (IT) Workers Professional?

Yes!For me,IT workers professional because it is made a easy work one example is computer.Computer all information that you like to do is make.So that IT is important to the workers,student's,management,companies and all factories.Now IT is very common in each country

10 Commandments of Computer Ethics

1.Thou shalt not use a computer to harm other people.
2.Thou shalt not interfere with other people's computer work.
3.Thou shalt not snoop around in other people's work.
4.Thou shalt not use a computer to steal.
5.Thou shalt not use a computer to bear false witness.
6.Thou shalt not use a computer or copy software for which you have not paid.
7.Thou shalt not use other people's computer resource with out authorization or proper
compesation.
8.Thou shalt not appropriate other people's intellectual output.
9.Thou shalt think about the soscial consequences of the program you write.
10.Thou shalt not use a computer in ways that show considerstion and respect.