• E4J University Module Series: Cybercrime

• Module 11: Cyber-Enabled Intellectual Property Crime

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• • Intellectual property: What it is
  • Types of intellectual property
  • Causes, reasons and perceived justifications for cyber-enabled copyright and trademark offences
  • Protection and prevention efforts
  • Conclusion
  • References

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

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• First published in June 2019
  

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  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Conclusion

 

With the Internet and other digital technologies, anyone can take protected content and instantly republish and redistribute it globally. Criminal justice efforts, technological solutions to limit unauthorized access to intellectual property, and education campaigns have been proposed as solutions to cyber-enabled intellectual property crime. Despite national, regional, and international legal and regulatory efforts, the simplicity, ease, and inexpensive nature of replicating, storing, distributing, and/or otherwise making available of intellectual property have made efforts to investigate and prosecute perpetrators of these cybercrimes and the prevention of these cybercrimes particularly challenging for relevant authorities and agencies worldwide.

 

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