Legal & Ethical Responsibilities in Information Technology

2. Act of damaging or attacking the reputation of someone or something in a malicious or false way.
4. Government license which gives the holder exclusive rights to make, use or sell an invention for a designated period of time.
9. Use of electronic communication to bully a person.
10. Invasion Intrusion into the personal life of another individual without just cause.
12. Contract by which two or more parties agree not to disclose confidential information which they have shared with each other.
15. One of several public copyright licenses which enables the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work.

1. Contract executed between or among collaborating institutions for the purchase and sale of intellectual property rights.
3. Symbol which identifies a particular source of goods or services from others.
5. Document software or development model of which the original source is made freely available to the public.
6. Any copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and transformative purpose, such as to comment upon, criticize or parody.
7. Guidelines which describe acceptable and unacceptable employee behaviors in the workplace.
8. Use of a patented invention without permission from the patent holder.
11. Document which outlines a set of acceptable behaviors for an organization or social group.
13. Exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee, to print, publish, perform or record creative materials.
14. Set of moral principles which outline the standards of right and wrong.