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Legal, Ethical, Societal Issues in

Media and Information

“Technology … is a queer thing.
It brings you great gifts with one hand,
and it stabs you in the back with the
other.”
C.P. Snow, New York Times, March 1971
CHED TG MIL
Copyright
- The legal protection
extended to the
OWNER of the rights in
an original work
- The owner has the sole
right to use and sell
his/her work.
- Copyright Law R.A.8293
- (Intellectual Property
Office of the Phil. IPO)
IPO says…
• Original work : the • Books, articles, writings
literary, scientific, and • Lectures, materials for oral
artistic domain of delivery
whatever mode or form • Letter, photographs
of expression, as well as • Dramatic, musical
content, quality, and compositions
purpose • Ornamental designs
• Illustrations, maps, charts
• Advertisements
• Literary, scholarly, scientific
works
The Author/Creator of a work
has the right …
• To require that works • To object to any
be attributed to them; distortion, modification,
that their names be mutilation or other
shown on the copies; derogatory action
• To make any changes of related to their work;
their work, or withhold • To restrain the use of
from publication; their name with respect
to any work not of their
own or in a distorted
version of their work.
Plagiarism.org says these are trivial
BUT illegal…
• Copying media and • Composing a music
images into your own piece that borrows
website or paper heavily from
• Making a video using another
the footage of others composition
• Using copyrighted • Re-mixing, altering
music copyrighted images,
• Re-creating a visual video, audio, even if
work in the same done so in an
medium (ex. Same original way
composition and • Recording audio or
subject matter as video with
someone else’s) copyrighted music
or video playing in
the background
Fair Use
Cybercrime Prevention Act or
REPUBLIC ACT No. 10175
(a) Offenses against the Examples:
confidentiality, integrity Illegal Access
and availability of System Interference
computer data and
systems Cyber Squatting
Cybercrimes
Identity Theft
• Insurance
• Medical
• Social Security
• Criminal
• Driver's License –
• Child identity
• Synthetic – A person
creates a new bogus
identity using info
from numerous
victims.
• Fake Wi-Fi
• Posing as a Census
Worker
• Mining Social Media
Profiles
https://www.araglegal.com/individual
s/learning-center/topics/protecting-
your-identity/top-ten-ways-identity-
theft-affects-you
Cybercrimes
• Cybersex/Cybersex
Trafficking
• Child Pornography
• Unsolicited Commercial
Communications
• Online Libel
• Cyberbullying
• Online Sextortion
• Human Trafficking
• Phishing
• Scamming
(rri.ro/hampshirepolice.uk)
Cybersex Trafficking
• is the live-streaming • Boys and girls—some
sexual exploitation of under 2 years old—are
children viewed over abused or forced to
the internet. Pedophiles perform sex acts in
and predators front of a webcam.
anywhere in the world • Pedophiles and
can now search online predators pay $20 to
and wire a secure $150 for a “sex show”
payment to an adult broadcast
who sets up the show. https://www.ijm.org/sites/default/files
/IJM_2016_Casework_FactSheets_Cyb
ersexTrafficking.pdf
The Anti-Bullying Act of 2013
(RA 10627)
The Story of Lizzie Velasquez
The Bully becomes a Cyberbully Victim
• Over 40 pages on Facebook
were dedicated to Carabuena,
with names such as “Patayin si
Robert Blair Carabuena,” “Like
if you want Robert Blair
Carabuena to be fired from
Philip Morris”, “Ikaw na nga
may pinagaralan ikaw pa
walang modo, f*** you Robert
Carabuena” and “Ilechon si
Robert Blair Carabuena,”
among others.

(MMDA officer Saturnino Fabros)

Republic Act 9995 –
Anti-Photo and Video
Voyeurism Act of 2009
Sources
• abbypatootie.tumblr.com
• inc.com
• Quotemaster.org
• Library.northeastern.edu
• Dailymail.co.uk
• Blogmalwarebytes.com
• Canstockphoto.com
• https://www.lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2012/ra_10175_2012.html
• http://www.inhousecommunity.com/article/cyber-bullying-philippines/
• https://privacy.com.ph/articles/the-anti-photo-and-video-voyeurism-act-
of-2009-a-primer/
• https://news.abs-cbn.com/lifestyle/08/23/12/carabuena-bully-
cyberbullying-victim
• https://www.ijm.org/sites/default/files/IJM_2016_Casework_FactSheets_
CybersexTrafficking.pdf
• CHED MIL teaching guide