Information Security Management: Copyright Protection and Ethics in Info Sec

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Information security management
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1INFORMATION SECURITY MANAGEMENT
Question/Issues (a) - Copyright Protection of information that is produced by Cosmos.
Daily huge amount of information is produced by thousands of freelance reporters of
Cosmos around the world and that information is read by several users of Cosmos. There is a
need to protect the information produced by Cosmos. Copyright infringement is a major issue
faced by online news portals on a regular basis and this must be dealt upon strongly. Before
taking into account what kind of information can be copyrighted, there is a need to look into
some of the examples of copyright infringement.
A reporter reports on an import meeting happening in town and a radio announcer
mentions the article and reads few lines from the article without giving due credit to the
reporter or asking for permission in the first place. This is an example of copyright
infringement (Dratler & McJohn, 2017). Information can be infringed upon by freelance
reporters of Cosmos also.
A reporter might read an article published by another reporter and then he/she decides
to publish that information without taking prior permission from the author leads to
infringement (Rcfp.org, 2018). Another form of infringement which is rampant is copying
photos from someone else’s work. This is a major violation which needs to be looked into by
Cosmos.
Cosmos can ensure copyright protection of information if they have sufficient
information about what can be copyrighted. A copyright law of a country will grant
protection only when a work is deemed original that is produced solely by a person (Yin,
2017). Cosmos needs to approach relevant authorities in Australia tasked with copyright
protection. Any work can be protected if there is necessary proof that this work is original