Ethics and Laws
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010Do you use a company issued pager or cell phone for personal communications? Perhaps you send a text message to a spouse or significant other? If so, do you expect those communications to be private? If you do, you might be interested in what the U.S. Supreme Court had to say about the subject yesterday. [...]
Take the Quiz: How Ethical Are You?
Friday, August 6th, 2010Take this quiz to learn if you’re a potential jailbird or part of the ethical elite! Though more than one answer might seem possible, try to pick the best answer to the questions provided. View the original here.
Ethical Writing in Business
Monday, August 2nd, 2010Click to play: Ethical writing is honest and objective. When you write, you should consider the impact your message will have on the reader, including any consequences that could occur because of your recommendations and conclusions. Be sure to analyze your writing so that fact and opinion do not overlap, and avoid any bias that [...]
The Post-it Note Trick: Is It Ethical?
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Here’s the Post-it note trick. In larger companies (and sometimes in medium/smaller companies), a secretary or an office assistant will open the resumes for the employees. This person is responsible for screening for advertising mailers and to weed out non-qualified candidates. Therefore, here is the trick. Take a regular Post-it note, and write something like [...]
What Is Intellectual Property?
Monday, July 19th, 2010Download this PDF file This guide to intellectual property answers (1) What is Intellectual Property?, (2) What is a Patent?, (3) What is a Trademark?, (4) What is an Industrial Design?, (5) What is a Geographical Indication?, and (6) What are Copyrightand Related Rights?
Plagiarism and Copyright: What Every Student Needs to Know
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010Download this PowerPoint file This 24-slide presentation discusses what students need to know about copyright and tells how to avoid plagiarism.
What Are the Different Types of Intellectual Property?
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010A talk by U.S. patent attorney Raj Abhyanker explaining the differences between different types of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. View the original here.
Why You Must Exercise Caution When Writing Online
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010One of the perks of living in a democratic country is that we have the right to free speech, which means that we can say pretty much what we please in any form of media, oral or written. But in reality, freedom of speech is restricted by the letter of the law or how we [...]
E-Mail Messages and Defamation Claims: Avoiding Liability
Friday, February 26th, 2010Download this PDF file In order to prevent defamation suits, from e-mail or otherwise, an employer must incorporate at least five policy statements and precautions into its related policies. Here are the policy statements.
Protecting Your Privacy
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010NOW spoke with Christopher Soghoian, a Ph.D. student in the School of Informatics at Indiana University and an expert on privacy and cyber-law. NOW: Why should innocent Americans be worried about the government monitoring their private communications? View the original here.
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