ITM 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Intangible Property, Categorical Imperative, International Intellectual Property Alliance
30 Aug 2013
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Chapter 4 social, ethical and legal issues in the digital firm. Case study: tech data helps to fight software piracy. Challenge: piracy of software costs organizations billions of dollars. Most companies in north america have computer usage policies that tell employees to use only software that have been properly leased or purchased. The canadian alliance (caast) half of canadians think pirating for individual use is fine, but 3/4th of canadians think it is unacceptable for organizations. 85% of canadians: there is something wrong with downloading illegal software. International intellectual property alliance (iipa) urges canada to adopt copyright reform legislation to adopt stricter enforcement as well. Tech data corporation (tdc) is the leading it distributor of hardware and software to more than 9000 value-added (var) Tdc thought that customers did not understand software piracy. Tdc wanted both customers and employees to be able to recognize pirated software. 4. 1 understanding social, legal and ethical issues related to systems (pg.
