Legal and Ethical

Legal and Ethical Team teach. intellectual property is the ideas generated by a person/ gorup/ business.

Intelectual property types copyright Trademarks Trade Secret (business info)

To protect violations is to register property, use watermarkings, liscense, raise awareness.

Can be used maliciously like for education, parodies, etc.

Its important because creaters shoudl be treated fairly and recognized for their hard work

#1: Some ways to protect intellectual property could be watermarks, a note to let any people using the content/ spreading the content to know who made the content so they could get credit for it, and even branding/ security features to blur screenshots.

MC sample question:

B is the best answer because watermarks can help us distinguish who owns the content.

Plagarism in computer science is using someone elses code, ideas, or algorithms without proper attribution. Coding plagaism could be problematic. Common culprits are AI models liek Chat Gpt or Gemini. Can be problematic because it can disrupt student problem solving skills when learning to code Can lead to academic penalties.

Hack #2 An MIT liscence is a permissive open source liscence that allows users to use and copy the structure and sell/ use it for their own benefit. The caviat is that you have to give credit by stating the liscence in the code/ site/ project. However, there are some certain regulations. In a personal project I could use the format of a code form MIT and give credit to MIT using the MIT liscence.

HAck #3 A creative common liscence enables the free distribution of the content wihtout any copyrighting issues. Some exceptions could be teh fact that the creator allowed for any use of the content without any reprocussions when not giving attributions to the creator.

Popcorn Hack #4: you can check liscences, you can give creit to the creator by linking/ citing sources [I spoke with Elliot Yang and Gavin Copley]

Homework Hack: I chose the MIT License because it is simple, permissive, and widely used. It allows others to freely use, modify, and distribute my code, even in proprietary software, as long as they include the original copyright notice. This flexibility encourages collaboration and reuse, making it ideal for a personal project I want to share and grow. It benefits users by not placing heavy restrictions on how they use or build upon my code.

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy… (continue with full MIT license from https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

My project, MediPulse, is a hospital recommendation system that uses machine learning to match users with the most suitable hospital based on medical issue, location, and priority. Key features include real-time filtering, hospital ranking, and an interactive map interface using Leaflet and OpenStreetMap.

Chosen License for CPT Project: Apache License 2.0 Apache License Full Text

In the LICENSE file of your CPT repository, include:

text Copy Edit Apache License
Version 2.0, January 2004
http://www.apache.org/licenses/

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); … (continue with full Apache 2.0 license text)