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INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
1. INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
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2. INFORMATION ETHICS
The branch of ethics that deals with the relationship between:
1. The creation, organization, dissemination, and use of
information, and the implicit ethical standards and;
2. Explicit legal codes that govern human conduct in society.
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3. INFORMATION INDUSTRY
• A broad term encompassing all the companies
and individuals in the business of providing
information and access to information for a profit.
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4. INFORMATICS
5. INFORMATION LITERACY
Skill in finding the information one needs, which requires
knowledge of how to search for the information and the
sources how libraries are organized, familiarity with the
resources they provide (including information formats and
computerized search tools), and knowledge of standard
research techniques.
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6. INFORMATION NEED
• A gap in a person's knowledge which, when experienced at the
conscious level as a question, gives rise to a search for an answer.
• Persons with information needs often end up at the reference desk
of the nearest library, where it is the responsibility of the reference
librarian to determine the precise nature of the inquiry, usually by
conducting an informal reference interview, and then recommend
resources that satisfy the user's request. They also may turn to the
assistance of the information professional to meet their needs.
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7. INFORMATION SCIENCE
• A branch of knowledge which investigates the sources,
development, dissemination, use, and management of
information in all its forms. Compare with informatics and
library science.
8. INFORMATION LAW
• The regulation and control of information by the state,
including laws regarding censorship, forgery, copyright and
intellectual property, freedom of information, intellectual
freedom, privacy, and computer crime.
• Also, a specialized branch of legal studies dealing with the
regulation of information
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES
An intellectual property is any product of the human intellect
that is unique, novel, and unobvious (and has some value in
the marketplace). Among them are:
· idea
· invention
· expression or literary creation
· unique name
· business method
· industrial process
· chemical formula
· computer program process
· presentation
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GENERAL VIEWS
• Intellectual Property is defined as any new and useful
process, machine, composition of matter, life form,
article of manufacture, software, copyrighted work or
tangible property
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ORGANIZATION
• The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). This
organization was founded in 1967 as one of the specialized
agencies of the United Nations organizations, and it has since
remained responsible for the protection of intellectual
property.
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• In other words, intellectual property, in the
most general sense, encompasses creations of
the human intellect and their protection,
usually by copyright.
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Copyright
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PROTECTION REGARDING INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY
• Protections come in terms of Copyright and
Industrial Property
• Industrial Property is divided into three:
· Patents
· Trademarks
· Industrial Design
PATENT
An invention is patentable if it is new, involves
an inventive step and is industrially applicable.
An invention is defined as being an idea which
permits in practice the solution to a specific
problem in the field of technology and may be
a product of process.
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Some ideas which may otherwise be inventive are specifically
excluded from patentability. These are:
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Trademark
Industrial Design
• Industrial Design protects the shape, pattern, or
color of the article which must appeal to the eyes
and reproducible by industrial means
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