# Information
## Deception and Disclosure
### Definition of Deception
### Prohibiting Deception
### Advertising, Bluffing
### Conclusion
- I have argued that there is a strong moral presumption against deception in business and professional life and have argued for the wrongess of a wide range of deceptive business and professional practices.
- Wrong... to fail to adequately inform those to whom they have fiduciary obligations.
- Salespeople and other business and professional people who do not have fiduciary obligations to others still have substantial duties to offer information and give warnings.
- THe Golden Rule tests for the permissibility of actions
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# Intellectual Property Rights
### Intro
1. Property is anything owned
2. Ownership is a bundle of rights or justified claims
2. In the information age, intellectual property is important but tricky
### The Concept of Intellectual Property
1. Ideas are "ours"... in what sense?
2. Ideas can be similar
3. Ideas are infinitely sharable
4. Ideas are received as part of education
5. First use of "IP" in 1845, MA Circuit Court ruling on a patent
6. "Expressions of the mind that are proteected by various forms of IP law" (410)
### Historical Background
1. IP claims did not arise until the printing press
2. Guilds *as a whole* protected trade secrets
3. Individualism as a Western ideal contributed to new IP understandings
4. 1624 British Statue of Monopolies was the "first patent law"
5. The first "modern copyright law" was the 1709 British Act of Anne
### Justification for IP
1. Natural Rights argument
2. Utilitarian-Pragmatic argument
3. "Personality" argument
### Trademark, Trade Secrecy Laws
### IP Law and Morality
1. Legal Protections and Ethical Obligations
2. The variability of Legal Protections and ethical obligations
3. Fair use
### Copyright, Software, and Digital Information
1. Unauthorized software copying
2. Digital Information
### Patents for Software and Methods of Doing business
1. Patents and software
### Discussion
* "Ethics can say whether some legislation goes so far as to be unethical... but most legislation concerning copyright ... falls into the range of morally acceptable."
* Your questions?