Copyrights, Ethics and Privacy

This report discusses the intellectual property and copyright laws in Australia, privacy laws in an organization according to the ACS privacy and integrity protection laws, and ethical codes of conduct.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Part A: Intellectual property and copyright.................................................................................3
An introduction to the Copyright Laws in Australia...............................................................3
How to implement Copyright Law for Australia should be enrolled in the organization.......3
Areas covered by copyright legislation...................................................................................3
Change recommendation to align the policy...........................................................................4
Procedure to maintain one copyright law................................................................................4
Distribution of revised policy..................................................................................................4
Part B: Privacy.............................................................................................................................5
Overview of the Privacy Policy for Yahoo..............................................................................5
Aim of the privacy policy........................................................................................................5
Privacy Legislation..................................................................................................................5
Table for Identification............................................................................................................5
Recommendations for changes required..................................................................................5
Part C: Ethics...............................................................................................................................5
Review of one of the company’s ethical code.........................................................................5
Comparison with ACS codes of Ethics...................................................................................5
Creating own code of ethics....................................................................................................6
Review and Grievance Process................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
Any profession demands maintaining of proper working conduct from both the
perspectives of an individual employee as well as the organization. It depends on the legislative
and ethical measures adopted by the country the organization is established in. The organizations
are obligated to follow these laws otherwise they might be considered as unlawful and any kind
of legislative steps can be taken against them (Bennett and Raab 2017). Thus, the following
report would be based on the personal perspective of an individual on how an organization
established in Australia and working under Information and Communication Technology
environment maintains all the professional and ethical conducts. This would be justified in the
report in four parts. The first part would relate an organization’s intellectual property and
copyright properties with that of the standard codes of conducts. The next part would include the
understanding of the Privacy Laws in an organization according to the ACS privacy and integrity
protection laws. The third part would have the ethical codes of conducts and finally the fourth
and last part would present an understanding of the entire research with the help of a meeting
held between two people that summarize the understanding of the entire research done so far.
Part A: Intellectual property and copyright
An introduction to the Copyright Laws in Australia
According to the Intellectual Property Rights as mentioned in the Australian Laws, it can
be stated that all the Divisions according to the Copyright Act 1968 clearly points out the fact
that all in an ICT environment, the creators are subjected to produce original works in their scope
of specialization. In addition to this, any work that does not acknowledge the original creator
while referring to their creations can be penalized in every possible way according to the legal
proceedings of Australia (Bennett and Raab 2017). Thus, it is understandable that every work
must be original, and when it refers to the original works of a creator, he or she should be given
proper acknowledgement for the task. This includes artistic works presented offline or online,
subject matters and creations like poems, paintings and others.
How to implement Copyright Law for Australia should be enrolled in the organization
Since, the company in discussion is an ICT based organization; all the laws presented in
the Australian Copyright Law should be applicable in the organization. This is to specify that the
integrity of the original creators should be maintained. Thus, within the organization, it should be
specified that the use of any original idea to create any work should be properly acknowledged
and it should be applicable to all the hierarchy levels of the organization (Suominen et al. 2016).
These should be included in the business policy and that should be spread within the entire
organization (Warren and Lucas 2016). Any person who does not follow the same should be
penalized harshly and if the continuation of the same occurs again, the employee would be
terminated. The entire workforce in the organization should be specifically made aware of the
company policies prepared on the basis of the Australian Copyright Law.

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Areas covered by copyright legislation
i. The organizational policy that applies to each
Ownership and Infringement of copyright works: Every original work must be
properly referred to acknowledge the original creator and any the copyrighted works should be
given special attention for this matter. Any infringement in the copyright laws may lead to
serious consequences for every employee in the workplace.
Subject-Matter, other than Works, in which Copyright Subsists: As an ICT
organization, it is necessary that the broadcasting of any product created on the pretext of the
organization should be original or should be given proper credit to the original content and
creator when referred as. It can be exempted on account of non-copyrighted materials but shall
be maintained for any copyrighted creation.
Miscellaneous: The subsistence of copyright under any provision of this Part does not
affect the operation of any other provision of this Part under which copyright can subsist.
ii. Application the policy in day to day work
Ownership and Infringement of copyright works: The employees in the organization
should enable implementing their own ideas and taking reference from the copyrighted works
only when required (Leicester 2016). A database can be maintained in accordance to this to
maintain proper acknowledgement ideas.
Subject-Matter, other than Works, in which Copyright Subsists: It must be paid
attention to that the employees use copyrighted work for their day to day references.
Miscellaneous: It should be kept in mind by every employee that they must report every
work to their seniors for proper monitoring regarding this matter (Chatfield and Reddick 2018).
Change recommendation to align the policy
The organization is advised to use copyrighted material when needed and focus more on
creating original document while production for abiding with the copyright policy.
Procedure to maintain one copyright law
The workforce is advised to produce original document as much as possible and take
little help from the copyrighted or non-copyrighted materials.
Distribution of revised policy
i. Existing staff
The existing staff would be handed over a document covering all the new business
policies applied and would be informed by personal mails as well.
ii. New staff
The new staff would be made aware of the new business policies via the orientation
program, and would be handled over with the printed copy of the business policies as well.

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iii. Management
The management would be informed through individual mails and by conducting a
meeting that would make them aware of the changes in the company’s policy and should be told
to pass them over to the subordinates as much verbally as possible.
iv. External stakeholders
The external stakeholders shall be shared a mail consisting of all the information
regarding the changes with detailed report and instructions about the conditions before and after
the change management application.
Part B: Privacy
Overview of the Privacy Policy for Yahoo
Privacy Policy in Yahoo describes that protected and secured information are always kept
intricate within the organization and all the user data is also kept safe from any kind of breaches
capable of occurring (Dženopoljac, Janoševic and Bontis 2016).
Aim of the privacy policy
The privacy policy is aimed particularly at the users who are being provided with the web
services offered by the organization (Dutfield 2017). It has a broad scope of maintaining user
data and providing the users with confidentiality with the web services they use to send or
receive data.
Privacy Legislation
The privacy policy for the security maintenance of user data that has been maintained,
stored and managed within the organization of Yahoo, abides by the Privacy Policy Laws as
mentioned in the country’s legislations (Burmeister 2017).
Table for Identification
APPs applicable to the
organization
Shortfalls between the
organization and the APPs
Policy of the organization
that exceeds the requirement
of APPs
The modifiable Data Breaches
(NDB) scheme under Part IIIC
of the Privacy Act
1988 (Privacy Act)
The Information sharing and
disclosure scheme
Changes in the policy of the
organizations
Recommendations for changes required
The changes those are required in this aspect is the changes regarding the security of the
user data which is found to be a little tricky in terms of storage, since it is found to be extremely
prone to data compromise (Baldwin and Henkel 2015).
Part C: Ethics
Review of one of the company’s ethical code
The organization focuses on the providing of their services in accordance to the
enhancement of the Primacy of the Public Interest. This means that the business organization

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strictly follows the ethical conduct all the services provided for the company should be working
in favor of the customer primarily (Pila and Torremans 2016).
Comparison with ACS codes of Ethics
The first and foremost policy of the ACS codes of conduct mentions that the services
provided by any ICT based company should work in favor of the customer’s requirements,
which is ardently followed as per the organization’s ethical policy. This policy should be
maintained in an organization as the first and foremost obligation of a company is to abide by the
requirements of the clients and customers.
Creating own code of ethics
It should be specified that use of any unfair means to finish a work with the use of illegal
applications over the web is absolutely prohibited within the organization. Any person found to
be using the same should be highly penalized (Birkbeck 2016). This should be reviewed and
monitored with the use of applications to map the online activities of each employee in the
organization.
Review and Grievance Process
The documents for the review and grievance policy should be prepared in accordance to
the applied ethical code as below:
 Grievance in relation with the code of ethics would be made by informing the
employee verbally first and then make him or her sign a petition that these unfair
an illegal online help should not be used hereof.
 The confidential reporting of the unfair means would first only be reported to the
managerial authorities, thus maintain privacy about the matter (Ferguson,
Thornley and Gibb 2016).
 The ethical codes implied newly in the business process should be circulated via
emails and meetings held to make all the stakeholders aware of it, as well as the
penalization policies if these codes are breached.
 The regular monitoring of the online activities of the employees would be done
and reported to the authorities in managerial posts.
Conclusion
Thus it can be stated from the above report that the Australian codes of Conducts and
Copyright laws are essentially helpful to maintain the integrity of original creation and this
should be implemented in every organization to acknowledge the works of original creators. The
workforce should be encouraged to create original works for the organization and should also be
recommended to use proper acknowledgements of the copyrighted works used as a reference.
This has been concluded with the help of the following report based on the personal perspective
of an individual on how an organization established in Australia and working under Information
and Communication Technology environment maintains all the professional and ethical
conducts. This had been justified in the report in four parts. The first part relates an
organization’s intellectual property and copyright properties with that of the standard codes of
conducts. The next part includes the understanding of the Privacy Laws in an organization
according to the ACS privacy and integrity protection laws. The third part has the ethical codes
of conducts and finally the fourth and last part presents an understanding of the entire research

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with the help of a meeting held between two people that summarize the understanding of the
entire research done so far.

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