Conclusion The most controversial areas in Internet cases nowadays seem to be those involving copyright laws. An issue that has become fundamental to computer usage and computer ethics, therefore, is copyright .
Copying is defined as the use of someone else's intellectual property , and it is therefore illegal.
If you produced the work yourself, then you are the natural author and own the copyright yourself. If you as an employee created the work in the scope of employment, your employer owns the copyright and is in fact considered the author. The US Copyright Law provides a more elaborate list of rules governing the ownership of copyright . In brief, it is risky to use anybody else's work without explicit permission from the owner of the work's copyright . Copyright infringement constitutes the reproduction of a work without such express permission.