Digital property rights:rights refer to Intellectual property rights given to persons over the digital property created by them.They usually give the creater an exclusive right over the use of his/her creation for a spesific period.The law states that the unauthorised copying,storing or distribution of another individuals digital property is a criminal offence and is subject to penalty under the law.

Potential threats to Digital Property Rights


•Intelleual Property Rights:The Internet is a relativity new place for buisness transactions and laws have not yet caught up with the various types of digital property available online and the differnt ways to infringe upon them.
•Patent Violations:New technology inventors have little or no patent footprint. Moreover,it is hard to prove the offence of technology imitators.
•Trademark Infringements:These occur when another company,usually a competitor, uses a company trademark to enhance its image.
•copyright Infringements:These violations involve the illegal distribution and scale of copyrights works.

Ways To Protect Digital Property Rights
There are many to ensure the protection of your digital properties. These help to control the use, modification,and distribution of copyrighted works (such as software and multimedia content),as well as systems within devices that enforce these policies. Some of the protective measures are given below:

•Technical Protection Services (TPSs):These services assist in controlling the distribution of digital intellectual property on the internet.These services include anti-tamper solutions like data encrytion and access control systems, which prevent hackers from hacking anyone's digital property.
Legal Protection:Digital property owerns must include digital rights protection clauses while drafting legal. and contractual agreements.These clauses restrict the scraping of one's software source code for reuse.Additionly,they engage a legal expert to swiftly act and respond to patent and other property rights infringements.
•Controlled Sharing of software Code:Companies should regularly organise employee security awareness training and prohibit them from sharing material related to digital property with anyone than the stakeholders.

OPEN SOURCE PHILOSOPHY
Open source is a philosophy that promotes the free access and distribution of an end product,usally software or a program.It may extend to the implementation and design of other products.The term open source picked up footing with the growth of the internet

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