1. Intellectual property rights concern the legal ownership and use of intellectual property such as software, music, movies, data, and information. Intellectual Property Rights Piracy Plagiarism Issues > Intellectual Property Rights In this section: Digital Rights Management (DRM) Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Links: Electronic Frontier Foundation: Intellectual Property Intellectual Property Newsflash U.S. Copyright Office: Fair Use Creative Commons

2. Intellectual Property definitions

3. Piracy Piracy involves the illegal copying, use, and distribution of digital intellectual property such as software, music, and movies. Links: Electronic Frontier Foundation: File Sharing RIAA: Piracy: Online and On The Street International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) Business Software Alliance: Anti-Piracy Microsoft: Protect Yourself from Piracy Electronic Frontier Foundation Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Wikipedia: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Issues > Intellectual Property Rights > Piracy

5. Plagiarism Plagiarism involves taking credit for someone else’s intellectual property, typically a written idea, by claiming it as your own. Links: Plagiarism.org Purdue: The OWL at Purdue - Avoiding Plagiarism Indiana University: Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It Turnitin.com Plagiarism Checker iThenticate Plagiarism Checker Issues > Intellectual Property Rights > Plagiarism

6. Digital Rights Management (DRM) Digital rights management, or DRM, is technology that protects digital forms of intellectual property by restricting the number of devices and applications on which a file can be opened, and the number of times that the file can be copied and burned to disk. Links: Electronic Frontier Foundation: DRM Electronic Frontier Foundation: The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User’s Guide to DRM in Online Music Defective by Design Microsoft: Windows Media DRM General DRM info Apple: Thoughts on Music from Steve Jobs Issues > Intellectual Property Rights > Digital Rights Management (DRM)

7. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a U.S. copyright law designed to reduce illegal digital media copying by criminalizing the production, distribution, and use of technologies designed to circumvent DRM technologies. Issues > Intellectual Property Rights > Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Links: The Library of Congress: DMCA full text UCLA: DMCA overview Electronic Frontier Foundation: DMCA PRO IP Act – H.R. 4279 full text Electronic Frontier Foundation:

8. Discussion Questions 1.Use your favorite search engine to acquire the URLs of three online music services and pay each site a visit. Create a spreadsheet that summarizes the digital rights management restrictions for each service. 2. Do a search on plagiarism at your favorite search engine. Study the search results and find answers to the following questions: a. How prevalent is plagiarism on college campuses? b. In what ways does the Web support plagiarism? c. What are colleges doing to fight plagiarism? 3. Use the Internet to search for recent mentions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the news.