5.5 Legal and Ethical Concerns
1. Exam Points
Legal ways to use to use material created by someone else:
Creative Commons: a public copyright license that allows people to specify how their materials can be used.Open source: source code published for free redistribution and modification.Open access: research output.
- rights-reversed vs.
no-rights-reserved
single-user-license
2. Knowledge Points
(1) Legal and Ethical Concerns
- Ease of access and distribution of digitized information raises
intellectual property concerns regarding ownership, value, and use.
- Some
legal ways to use material created by someone else include:
- A.
Creative Commons (创作共享) — a public copyright license that enables the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work. Creative Commons licensing allows copyright owners to specify the ways in which their works can be used or distributed.
- Creative Commons 是一个2001年在美国成立的全球性非营利组织，致力于通过标准化著作权许可协议（CC协议）促进创意作品的自由流通与再利用，允许创作者在保留部分权利的前提下授权他人使用作品。
- B.
Open source(开源) — programs that are made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open-source software has source code that is released under a license that allows users to use and distribute it.
- C.
Open access(开放获取) — online research output free of any and all restrictions on access and free of many restrictions on use, such as copyright or license restrictions.
- 开放获取是国际学术界、出版界、图书情报界为了推动科研成果利用互联网自由传播而采取的行动。
- The use of material created by someone other than you should always be
cited.
3. Exercises
