Ethics and Professional Practice Report: Cyberspace and Ethics

This report delves into the ethical considerations surrounding intellectual property within the context of cyberspace. It examines the challenges posed by digital environments, focusing on copyright, digital marketing, and e-commerce. The report explores the implications of the internet on artistic and literary creations, emphasizing the need for respect and integrity in the handling of intellectual property. It also discusses the legal frameworks and potential actions that can be taken to protect intellectual property rights. References to academic sources, such as Chaffey & Ellis-Chadwick (2016), Depoorter (2013), and Moore (2017), are provided to support the arguments presented. The report highlights the crucial role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in relation to intellectual property in the modern digital landscape.

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Intellectual property in cyberspace
Intellectual property in the cyberspace is considered to be one of the most interesting
aspects in the creative aspects of the contemporary technology. The artistic and literary creations
can be displayed by the artists through internet in all the cases. The transmission can be
converted from the creator to the viewer (Depoorter, 2013). After that the re-transmission can be
done from the viewer to viewer. The internet can be taken as a very important medium for the
better artistic expressions in different areas. The academic creators can also opt to make their
work at the best grade possible. The technology seems to be one of the best ways for making
great innovations. The viewers or the users can do many things like editing, distorting and
reshaping the original works (Depoorter, 2013). The purpose of the creators who work for the
commercialization should go for reaching a wide number of audiences. These are the very
reasons that the authors can search the internet and find that their creative artistic creations can
be re-posted on multiple numbers of occasions. There is an issue regarding the ‘respect and
integrity’ in this context. The author always wants that his or her creation can be respected by the
other viewers (Moore, 2017). They always want that their works can be shown much integrity as
people should not imitate or manipulate it.
The factor of ‘respect and integrity’ should always be kept by the authors. If this has to be
done some steps have to be taken indeed. The intellectual property has to be kept indeed. The
protected images and writings should be kept intact. The legal steps will have to be taken if this
intellectual property in the cyberspace is committed somehow (Moore, 2017). If some person or
organization is copying or re-transmitting the works, he or she is liable for the reach of the
copyright or the trademark laws indeed. If the purpose is to gain some financial gain in this issue,
the authors should deal with this issue with strict measures. The infringement in the intellectual

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property in the cyberspace deals with the various things like the usage of the trademarks, trade
names, music or sound, spamming or the digital copyrights and many other things. With the
immense growing popularity of the E-commerce this has emerged as the main issue in the
contemporary digital marketing (Chaffey & Ellis-Chadwick, 2016). The Information and
Communication technologies (ICT) have a good connection with the Internet as a part of the
integrated approach towards intellectual property.

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References
Chaffey, D., & Ellis-Chadwick, F. (2016). Digital marketing. Prentice Hall.
Depoorter, B. (2013). Intellectual property infringements & 3d printing: Decentralized
piracy. Hastings LJ, 65, 1483.
Moore, A. (2017). Intellectual property and information control: philosophic foundations and
contemporary issues. Routledge.