Learning outcomes:

1. Protect intellectual property

1.1 Identify current legislation and standards relating to intellectual property and copyright

1.2 Investigate current organisational copyright policy

1.3 Adhere to organisational policy and current legislation in work practices

2. Contribute to copyright policy

2.1 Contribute to the creation or updating of the organisation's copyright policy and procedures to align with legislation and industry standards

2.2 Distribute new or revised policy and procedures to stakeholders

3. Protect rights of stakeholders

3.1 Identify and document the relevance of legislation and standards to organisational outcomes

3.2 Investigate and review organisational privacy policy and procedures

3.3 Investigate and review organisational code of ethics

3.4 Determine the integrity, confidentiality, security and availability of information as required by organisational policy

3.5 Maintain confidentiality and proprietary rights of stakeholder interests

4. Contribute to privacy policy

4.1 Contribute to the creation or updating of the organisational privacy policy and procedures to align with privacy legislation

4.2 Distribute new or revised policy and procedures to stakeholders

4.3 Implement new work procedures and collect feedback from stakeholders

4.4 Ensure the integrity, confidentiality, security and availability of information as required by organisational policy

5. Maintain privacy policy

5.1 Review work practices to ensure application of privacy policy and procedures

5.2 Maintain the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of information as required by organisational privacy policy

5.3 Review work practices to ensure system security according to organisational privacy policy

6. Contribute to creation of ethics code

6.1 Assist in developing or updating a code of ethics to align with legislation and standards for the organisation

6.2 Distribute the new ethics code to stakeholders and collect feedback

6.3 Implement new ethical work procedures and collect feedback

6.4 Review ethical work practices and feedback to ensure application of the code

7. Maintain ethics code

7.1 Perform regular checks to ensure stakeholders understand and are continuing to apply the code of ethics in the workplace

7.2 Establish a review and grievance procedure to enable confidential reporting of any ethical issues

7.3 Interview and regularly follow up with stakeholders to ensure they are receiving consistent and appropriate service in dealing with the code of ethicsAssessment

Part 1. Case Study Scenario

A company has a licence for one copy of a database programme. The Team Leader wants you to prepare a feasibility study on setting up a 20-user network. He believes he will achieve great savings by networking his one licence of the database.

Write a report to Project Manager explaining that it is not possible to do this for intellectual property, copyright and ethical reasons. Explain the intellectual property, copyright law the company would break if such program was implemented.

Your task:
- Write a report explaining that it is not possible to do this for intellectual property, copyright and ethical reasons.
- Explain the intellectual property, copyright law the company would break if such program a program was implemented and the consequences of such action by the business

Report Content:
The body of your report should include information from the following outline:

- Introduction

- Copyright / Intellectual property issues

o Identify current legislation and standards relating to intellectual property and copyright
o Investigate current organisational copyright policy
o Research organisational copyright policy and current legislation in work practices
o Create organizational copyright policy and review work practices to address integrity, confidentiality, and availability, security of information

- Ethical issues
o Code of Ethics
o Ethical issues

- Conclusion

Part 2. Information Research

Using the newspapers, magazines and Internet, research the status of finger-printing programs. List the advantages and disadvantages of using finger-printing for attendance at Academies Australasia's school environment.

Your Task:
- Identify the privacy legislation and privacy issues that would arise due to such a system.
- How privacy issues would be addressed if such a system was implemented.
- Create a privacy policy for the organisation and review work practices to address integrity, confidentiality, and availability, security of information

Part 3. Ethics code
Pretend you own a software consulting business that is growing in size and you need to employ more programmers. Most of the work in on-site and your developers are sometimes working on their own computers, sometimes on the clients systems. As we are simulating an I.T environment you can make assumptions.

Your task:
- Produce a concise Code of Ethics and checklist appropriate for all staff
- Write a document that explains how your company expects its employees to behave ethically and when dealing with your client's confidential information.
- Write a grievance procedure for staff, so they can confidentially report any ethical issues.

Assignment Preparation Guideline:

Following are guidelines for the submission of assignment.
- Use size A4 paper and leave at least a 3 cm margin. This is the best format for both marking and photocopying.
- Number each page of the assignment.
- Make a duplicate copy of each assignment. This overcomes any problems should your assignments ever be lost in transit even though this rarely happens.