Legal, Ethical, and Societal Issues in Media and Information

The authorship of a specific work should be attributed to the owner.

• True

• False

Legal standard is related to the moral obligation of knowing what is right and wrong.

• False

• True

Answer explanation

Legal standards follow a set of rules, in which the actions executed by the producers and consumers of information must be based on the law, and anyone can be punished if those rules are violated.

Not all ethical standards can be legal, and not all legal standards can be ethical.

• True

• False

Plagiarism does not only involve words , but also ideas.

• True

• False

Legal standards follow a set of universally accepted and enforced rules within a certain territory.

• False

• True

It is the exclusive legal right of an intellectual property owner to reproduce, sell, or distribute a material that he/she has created.

• Copyright

• Economic right

• Moral right

Scope of a copyright which refers to the privilege of a copyright owner to sell or gain financial benefit from his/her IP.

• Economic right

• Moral right

Scope of copyright which refers to the owner's entitlement that the IP is his/her own original work and none could ever claim it as theirs.

• Economic right

• Moral right

The authorship of a specific work should be attributed to the owner.

• Monetary payment

• Acknowledgement

Anything that a person creates, designs, or invents that can be an asset or physical property.

• Intellectual Property

• Copyright

• Moral right

• Economic right