1. What are all the challenges that face your team regarding the successful completion of your capstone project? Have you considered everything?

2. What do the following mean to you – can you Professional ethics
Professional conduct
Professional integrity
Professional responsibility
Legal responsibility

3. Ethics – the slippery slope?

5. DEFINE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

6. A REAL LIFE CASE

7. KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GETTING INTO
CONTRACTS
KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GETTING INTO

8. NDA’S
READ THE FINE PRINT
MAKE SURE IT IS A NON DISCLOSURE AND NOT A NON COMPETITIVE

9. PROTECTING YOUR WORK

10. Seminal case – oracle vs google
As long as the specific code written to implement a method is different, anyone is free under the Copyright Act to write his or her own method to carry out exactly the same function or specification of any and all methods used in the Java API. Contrary to Oracle, copyright law does not confer ownership over any and all ways to implement a function or specification, no matter how creative the copyrighted implementation or specification may be. The Act confers ownership only over the specific way in which the author wrote out his version. Others are free to write their own implementation to accomplish the identical function, for, importantly, ideas, concepts and functions cannot be monopolized by copyright.”
This order holds that, under the Copyright Act, no matter how creative or imaginative a Java method specification may be, the entire world is entitled to use the same method specification (inputs, outputs, parameters) so long as the line-by-line implementations are different. To repeat the Second Circuit’s phrasing, “there might be a myriad of ways in which a programmer may … express the idea embodied in a given subroutine.”

11. The Canadian Copyright Act explicitly extends protection to “computer programs”, a subset of literary works, which are defined as “a set of instructions or statements, expressed, fixed, embodied or stored in any manner, that is to be used directly or indirectly in a computer in order to bring about a specific result”. While Canadian courts have not dealt with the threshold issue, it would appear that most APIs would meet the definition of “computer program”, being a set of instructions or statements which are to be used when one computer program interfaces with (or “speaks with”) another.

12. if there is only one or a very limited number of ways to achieve a particular result in a computer program, to hold that such way or ways are protected by copyright could grant a monopoly on the idea or function itself. In that case, the Court accepted that the “merger” doctrine prevalent in US law is a natural corollary of the idea/expression distinction fundamental to Canadian law (although it did not formally adopt the doctrine). The “merger” doctrine holds that the expression of an idea loses copyright eligibility if it is inextricably linked with its underlying idea.

13. What was covered in this seminar
Ethics
Sheridan Code of Conduct
Ethics for IT Professionals IP
Student rights
What constitutes transfer of IP
NDAs
What to avoid
Examples
What to do if in doubt
COPYRIGHT LAW (CANADA)

14. Professional Associations Professional Affiliations
Sheridan Policies
Professional Associations
Professional Affiliations