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5.5 Legal and Ethical Concerns

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Notes

• Creative commons: public copyright license that enables free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work & Used when content creator wants to give the other the right to share, use, and build upon the work they have created
• Open source: programs are made freely available and may be redistributed and modified
• Open access: online research output free of any and all restriction on access and free of many restriction on use, such as copyright or license restrictions
• Use of material created by someone other than you should always be cited
• Creative commons, open source, and open access have enabled broad access to digital information
• Using computing to harm individuals or group of people raises legal and ethical concerns
• Computing can play a role in social and political issues → raises legal and ethical concerns
• Digital divide raises ethical concerns around computing
• Unequal distribution of access to technology
• Computing innovations raise legal and ethical concerns
• Development of software that allows access to digital media downloads and streaming
• Development of algorithms that include bias
• Existence of computing devices that collect and analyze data by continuously monitoring activities
• Intellectual property (IP): work or invention that is the result of creativity to which one has rights
• Copyright protects your IP, keeps anyone from using it without permission
• Plagiarism: presenting material as your own
• Legal ways to use material created by someone else: creative commons, open source, open access

Actions

When you create a GitHub repository it requests a license type. Review the license types in relationship to this Tech Talk and make some notes in GitHub pages.

• MIT License: allows people to freely use, make, and distribute closed source versions
• GPL License: doesn’t allow for distributing closed source versions

Make a license for your personal and Team project. Document license you picked and why.

• I chose the GNU General Public License v3 for my personal and team project because I think it gives people the most freedom to use, distribute, and modify the software