Internet Surf and Turf Revealed

1. Intellectual property is a product resulting from human creativity. It is something you have created with your brain rather than actual physical property.

2. Clause 8 states that Congress has the power to protect authors and inventors writings and inventions. The purpose of the clause is to protect people who come up with original works from having their work stolen from them.

3.The copyright law is meant to give creators rights over their works for a certain period of time. This to ensure that they have control over their work and no one wrongfully takes it away from them.

Patent Law provides monopoly protection for inventions that meet the requirements  of utility, movelty and nonobviousness, meaning that the invention is new and fresh and many people would not know about it but would want it. A patent is going to protect your new invention from others trying to reproduce it for themselves.

Trademark law allows entities engaged in commerce to exclusively protect a particular word, symbol, or design identify their goods or services. When you trademark something you ensure that the symbol you have created represents your company and no one else can use that symbol to represent their own personal company or things.

Trade secret law is protection under state law against unauthorizes use of secret business information. This is to ensure that yuor secret for whatever you are coming up with will not get out, and you don't have to tell anyone the secret stays with you.

Trade dress law protects the appearance and image of a product or service, such as its packaging size and shape or the color combinations. An example would be a Coke bottle, no one else can use that particular bottle shape to put out their pop.

4. The CTEA made it so no work would come into the public domain until 2019 ensuring many people more time with their exclusive creations or characters. It also chaged copyright in the case of Eldred v. Ashcroft which ended up going to the Supreme Court. The Court ruled that Congress did have the authority to extend copyright as long as it was for a limited time. This made it so Congress could extend copyrights for a very long time and the people of the public domain waiting for certain copyrights to expire are going to lose out.

5. Your work will be protected from when it is fixed in a tangible medium of expression.Your work will be protected for life plus 70 years (or if work of corporate authorship, the shorter of 95 years from publication, or 120 years from creation.)

6. The DMCA  penalizes anyone who tries to hack anticopying technologies on digital media. The ramfications are that it stops people from digitally sharing media because it infringes upon copyright laws.

7. A tangible from of expression is important in that it must be tangible, it can't be an idea in a brain, it has to be in a tangible from that can be seen. A tangibile expression of media would include  paper, recordings, video, or digital media.

10. Three examples of infringement would include taking a photograph of a work, creating a new musical work by sampling an existing work, and building a house from a copyrighted design.

11. Contributory infringement- When a person directly contributes to the direct infringement of someone's intellectual property. Vicarious infringement- When a person or entity has direct control of the infriging activity and benefits financially from the infringement.

12. The Fair Use Doctrine states that  you may claim fair use when you use a portion of something that is copyrighted without permission from the owner.  The four factors that determine whether something is fair use or not are the purpose and character of the work, the nature of the work, the effect on the the potential market, and the amount and sustantiality that you take from the origianl work.

Comm 201 Ch's 9 and 10

1. You can use a junk cleaning program which will find all the old iternet files you don't need and will clean them up to boost the performance of your computer. You can use Windows Disk Cleanup Utility, this program will delete unneeded files and free up space on the hard drive. Get rid of unwanted applications, applications that are unwanted and unneeded will only slow your computer down and need to be deleted. Delete files you no longer need, Get rid of the largest files that you don't need so that your hard drive has more free space to perform important tasks. Delete printer drivers you wont need, if you aren't using the printers there is no purpose and they should be deleted to boost performance.

2. I use the disk cleanup and disk defragmentation options for my Windows laptop about once a week. It gets rid of many files I don't need quickly and easily and makes my computer so much faster. I knew about them before the author mentioned them and knew it was important to keep plenty of free space on my hard drive.

3. Data Scrubbing is deleting information than writing over it so the drive loses record of once was there and there is no way to recover the information. It is important to insure that everythiung gets deleted, if not many things can be recovered.

4. A cookie is a small text files websites embed on your computer when you visit them. the good side is that websites remember you and are able to treat you more personally and know what you want. Your cookies are bad in that people can track the websites you have been to and it could get you in trouble if you don't manage your cookies.

5. Keyloggers are programs that record every keystroke you make amd e-mail the file to the hacker. The first program the author mentions is ad-aware personal from Lavasoft. Microsoft's Windows Defender is the other program you can use and the author suggests using both. Also if you can spare a little money the Webroot Spy Sweeper is very good at catching malicious attacks. A lot of free anti-spyware ads are actually just spyware disguised. You should check the name of the company at symantec.com.

6. Phishing is when you get a disguised e-mail asking you for some information, usually financial so that they can scam you. Pharming is a type of identity theft when you land on a phony website. That site will capture the information you  put in, and rip you off.