Digital Law, Ethics & Intellectual Property
Legal protections that grant original creators exclusive rights to reproduce, distribute, perform, display, or adapt their creative works.
What is Copyright Laws?
Ensuring sensitive data is accessible only to authorized individuals.
What is Confidentiality?
The physical, tangible electrical circuits, components, and mechanical parts that make up a computer system.
What is Hardware?
The intangible collection of instructions, programs, code scripts, and routines that direct computer hardware on how to execute tasks.
What is Software?
A legal doctrine that allows limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holder, typically for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research.
What is Fair Use?
Ensuring data remains accurate, complete, and protected against unauthorized modification.
What is Integrity?
Non-volatile digital media designed to preserve operating systems, software programs, user files, and media long-term, even when the computer is turned off.
What is Storage?
Specialized software designed to help an end-user accomplish specific tasks or activities, distinct from the core operating system.
What is an Application/App?
Creations of the human mind protected by law, including inventions, literary and artistic works, designs, symbols, names, and images used in commerce.
What is Intellectual Property?
Ensuring authorized users have reliable, uninterrupted access to systems and information when needed.
What is Availability?
Any hardware device, command, or signal used to feed external data and user instructions into a computer for processing.
What is Input?
A specialized system utility program that enables the operating system and software applications to communicate and interact smoothly with specific connected hardware peripherals.
What is a Driver?
Intellectual and creative works that are either free of copyright restrictions (Public Domain) or shared under open licenses that permit free use and adaptation under specified conditions (Creative Commons).
what is Creative Commons?
The collection of digital practices, tools, and protocols designed to protect digital data from unauthorized access, corruption, or theft across its entire lifecycle.
What is Data Security?
A base-2 numerical system that uses only two digits, 0 and 1, forming the universal electrical language underlying all digital computing and hardware circuits.
What is Binary?
The visual layout, screens, menus, buttons, icons, and interactive elements through which a human user interacts with and controls a computer or software program.
What is User Interface/UI
The unauthorized copying, downloading, distribution, or commercial use of copyrighted software programs.
What is Software Piracy?
The cryptographic mathematical process of transforming readable data (plaintext) into an unreadable scrambled format (ciphertext) that can only be unlocked with a secret decryption key.
What is Encryption?
The fundamental, smallest unit of digital information in computing, holding a single binary value of either 0 or 1.
What is a Bit?
The foundational system software that manages computer hardware resources (CPU, RAM, storage, peripherals), organizes file systems, and provides common background services for application software.
What is an Operating System.