Legal, Ethical and Societal Issues in Media and Information

2. Legal, Ethical, &
Societal Issues in
Media & Information
BY: MARK JHON C. OXILLO

3. Republic Act
No.10175

4. Republic Act No. 10175
- Or the Cybercrime Prevention
Act of 2012
- is a law in the Philippines
approved on September 12,
2012 which aims to address
legal issues concerning online
interactions and the Internet

5. Republic Act No. 10175
Among the cybercrime
offenses included in the bill
are cybersquatting,cybersex,
child pornography, identity
theft, illegal access to data
and libel.

6. So what is
Cyber?

7. CYBER means …
• relating to, or
involving computers or
computer networks
(such as the Internet)

9. Cyberspace

10. Cyberspace
- refers to the virtual computer
world, and more specifically, is
an electronic medium used to
form a global computer
network to facilitate online
communication

12. Cybercrime

13. Cybercrime
- refers to the criminal
activities carried out by
means of computers or
the Internet

15. CYBERBULLYING

16. Cyberbullying
- the use of electronic
communication to bully a
person, typically by
sending messages of an
intimidating or threatening
nature

18. Hacking

19. Hacking
- refers to the practice of
modifying or altering
computer software and
hardware to accomplish a
goal that is considered to be
outside of the creator's
original objective.

20. Hacking
Those individuals who
engage in computer
hacking activities are
typically referred to as
“hackers”.

22. Phishing

23. Phishing
- is the attempt to obtain sensitive
information such as usernames,
passwords, and credit card details
(and, indirectly, money), often for
malicious reasons, by disguising as a
trustworthy entity in an electronic
communication.

25. Illegal
Downloading

26. Illegal Downloading
- refers to obtaining
files that you do not
have the right to use
from the Internet.

27. Illegal Downloading
Sites
Legal Downloading
Sites
The Pirate Bay iTunes
Kickass.to Yahoo Music
TorrentDownloads.me Amazon
YTS.ag Netflix
RARBG.to Ruckus

29. Digital
Piracy

30. Digital Piracy
- the practice of
illegally copying and
selling digital music,
video, computer
software, etc.

32. Identity
Theft

33. Identity Theft
- is the deliberate use of
someone else's identity, usually
as a method to gain a financial
advantage or obtain credit and
other benefits in the other
person's name, and perhaps to
the other person's
disadvantage or loss

35. Cyber
Defamation

36. Cyber Defamation
- is an unprivileged
false statement of fact
which tends to harm
the reputation of a
person or company

37. 2 Types of
Defamation:
1. Libel - written
2. Slander - verbal

39. Cybersex

40. CYBERSEX
• also called computer
sex, Internet sex, netsex
• is a virtual sex encounter in
which two or more people
(connected remotely via
internet) send each other
sexually explicit contents or
sexually explicit acts

42. Child
Pornography

43. Child Pornography
- is a form of child
sexual exploitation

45. Cybersquatting

46. CYBERSQUATTING
• is registering, trafficking
in, or using an Internet
domain name with bad
faith intent to profit from
the goodwill of a
trademark belonging to
someone else.

47. CYBERSQUATTING
• The cybersquatter then
offers to sell the domain
to the person or company
who owns a trademark
contained within the
name at an inflated price.

48. OPYRIGHT

49. COPYRIGHT
• a legal device that gives
the creator of a literary,
artistic, musical, or other
creative work the sole
right to publish and sell
that work.

50. COPYRIGHT
Copyright owners have the
right to control the
reproduction of their work,
including the right to
receive payment for that
reproduction.

51. Violation of a
copyright is called
infringement.

52. PLAGIARISM

53. PLAGIARISM
• an act or instance of using or
closely imitating the language
and thoughts of another author
without authorization; the
representation of that author's
work as one's own, as by not
crediting the original author

54. FAIR USE

55. FAIR USE
is a legal concept that allows the
reproduction of copyrighted material
for certain purposes without
obtaining permission and without
paying a fee. Purposes permitting the
application of fair use generally
include review, news reporting,
teaching, or scholarly research.

57. COMPUTER
ADDICTION

58. Computer Addiction
- the excessive use of computers
to the extent that it interferes
with daily life. This excessive use
may for example interfere with
work or sleep, result in problems
with social interaction, or affect
mood, relationships and thought
processes.

60. DIGITAL DIVIDE

61. Digital Divide
- an economic inequality between
groups in terms of access to, use of,
or knowledge of ICT. The divide
within countries can refer to
inequalities between individuals,
households, businesses, and
geographic areas at different
socioeconomic (and other
demographic) levels

63. VIRTUAL SELF

64. Virtual Self
- The persona you
create about
yourself virtually

65. NETIQUETTE

66. Netiquette
• the correct or
acceptable way of
communicating
on the Internet.

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