The ethics of intellectual property and the new information technologies

Article Abstract:

The third in a series of roundtable discussions on engineering ethics focuses on intellectual property, where ethical distinctions are less clear-cut than they were in the previous discussions on the ethical dilemmas faced by engineers at work, and on engineering education. Moderator Michael Loui of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, highlights four areas for the discussion: control over intellectual property by research universities; universities sharing ownership with students and professors for courseware they develop that changes over time; company ownership rights for software and other digital documents developed by employees outside their assigned duties; and the intellectual property that employees can take with them when they leave a company or university. Roundtable participants are Joseph R. Herkert and Peggy Hoon of North Carolina State University, Raleigh; Linton G. Salmon and Caronline Whitbeck of Case Western Reserve University; Keith Miller of the University of Illinois, Springfield; Trudy E. Bell; Lesley Ellen Harris; Don Gotterbarn of the Software Engineering Ethics Research Institute at East Tennessee State University; Kay Kesan of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and Brian O'Connell of Central Connecticut State University.

United States, Prepackaged software, Computer Software, Software Publishers, Engineering Services, Electrical Engineers, Computer software industry, Software industry, Software, Ethical aspects, Intellectual property, Panel Discussion, Industry legal issue, Social issue, Social conditions, Electrical engineering

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Electric idyll

Article Abstract:

Implications of the Boise-based Idaho Power Company's resistance to power deregulation are discussed.

Government regulation (cont), Electric Utilities, Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Government domestic functions, Government regulation, Electric services, Legal/Government Regulation, Idaho, Analysis, Energy policy, Deregulation, Boise, Idaho, Idaho Power Co.

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