Web Sites Resource List

(All items accessed on 8/11/99.)

  1. Laws that apply to software and the consequences of failure to comply with them

    2. The Canadian Press via COMTEX "New software copyright piracy damages to be law by fall". 8/10/99.

    http://www.andovernews.com/cgi-bin/news_story.pl?24367

    Diederich, T. "Clinton declares war on software pirates". Online News, 10/02/98.

    http://www.computerworld.com/home/news.nsf/CWFlash/9810025pirate

    Harrison, A. "Software piracy tops $1 billion". ComputerWorld, 6/14/99.

    http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/990614ADFA

    Helfand, D. "Computer giants sue schools over unlicensed software". The Seattle Times Company, 7/22/98.

    http://www.seattletimes.com/news/technology/html98/altsoft_072298.html

    Law Research. The Internet Law Library. "Law and Internet Related Ethics".

    http://www.lawresearch.com/cethics.htm

    PRNewswire via COMTEX . "Microsoft files actions against five Georgia businesses for distribution of counterfeit software". 8/5/99.

    http://www.andovernews.com/cgi-bin/news_story.pl?21809

    Seminerio, M. "US Report: White House orders crackdown on software piracy". 10/2/98.

    http://195.27.241.3/news/1998/39/ns-5623.html

    "Software metering: why meter your software license, recent software copyright violation settlements, White House ordered crackdown on software piracy".

    http://www.elronsoftware.com/metering.html

    Starzynski, B. and Deady, T. Survey says: Uncle Sam is a software pirate". South Florida Business Journal, 2/17/97.

    http://www.amcity.com/southflorida/stories/021797/story1.html

    SPA Anti-Piracy—Division of SIIA.

    http://www.siia.net/piracy/default.htm

  2. Advice and guidelines for businesses

    3. "Advice from the Texas Instruments Ethics Office". These pages contain a selection of advice from The Ethics Office at Texas Instruments Corporation. The advice is that of either TI Ethics Director Carl Skooglund, or Glenn Coleman, Manager of Ethics Communication and Education. The articles are distributed among TI employees via "TNEWS". Each of the links below takes you to several related TI Ethics Office articles.

    http://onlineethics.org/corp/ti-ethics.html

    Business Software Alliance. Software Piracy. c1998, 1999.

    Download the PDF file "Guide to Software Management" for the U.S.

    Resources include:

    Sample memorandum to employees

    Sample software needs analysis for employees

    Sample corporate policy

    http://www.nopiracy.com/

    "Is someone in your office guilty of software piracy?". c1999 IOMA, Preventing Business Fraud , May 1999.

    http://web.lexis-nexis.com

    Mirage Multimedia Systems. "Just say no to software piracy".

    http://www.mirage-mmc.com/AntiPiracy/index.html

    Nash, K. "Software firms hire SWAT teams to fight piracy". ComputerWorld, 4/28/97.

    http://www.computerworld.com/home/print9497.nsf/all/SL17pirat

    Software & Information Industry Association.

    http://www.siia.net

  3. Computer ethics resources

"Ethics in computing site map".

http://www2.ncsu.edu/eos/info/computer_ethics/

Tavani, H. "Computer crime and computer abuse". c1996.

http://www.siu.edu/departments/coba/mgmt/iswnet/isethics/biblio/part10.htm#10.4