Key Information Liability Issues Facing Managers: Software Piracy, Proprietary Databases, and Individual Rights to Privacy.

Author List: Straub Jr., Detmar W.; Collins, Rosann Webb;
MIS Quarterly, 1990, Volume 14, Issue 2, Page 143-156.
The article discusses key issues and laws relevant to information use in organizations and proposes specific methods for dealing with legal liability. The author explains that the legal status of information in its electronic forms of programs and the rights of individuals to keep private some information about themselves is not clearly defined in the patchwork of old and new legislation on Computer-based information. The author states that as information usage in organizations increases there will be a need to decrease the information liabilities of managers and their organizations. The discussion within the article focuses on the protection of intellectual property rights concerning programs and the protection of individual rights to privacy of information stored in computer-based systems. INSETS: Scenario 1.;Scenario 2..
Keywords: Legal aspects of computing;protecting the information resource;copyright infringement;software piracy;proprietary databases;commercial databases;intellectual property rights;individual rights to privacy;information liabilities
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