Digital+Law

**Digital Law Definition:**
The Legal rights and restrictions governing technology use.

**Digital Law Issues:**

 * File Sharing
 * Pirated media
 * hacking
 * subverting digital right management software
 * stealing someone's identity

**Uses:**

 * **Appropriate Use** || **Inappropriate Use** ||  ||
 * Collaborative work spaces to complete written work. || Copying written work without proper sources ||
 * Buying music and listening to it personally. || downloading illegal music ||
 * Giving credit to sources used || hacking ||
 * || copying digital files and distributing them (pirating) ||

**Guidelines:**
1. All users must follow the [|Fair Use Guidelines] that refer to copyrighted material. 2. Violation of intellectual digital property rights is illegal. Consequently, the following activities are not allowed:
 * using file-sharing sites;
 * cracking or using using pirated software or media
 * subverting digital right management software.

3. Violation of data integrity and/or privacy is unethical and may be illegal. Consequently, the following activities are not allowed:
 * hacking into systems or networks; and
 * using another person's identity as your own.