Protecting Reputations

Online
Nowadays, embarassing moments are captured using any device you
could ever imagine. Worse is that people can easily upload it to the internet,
where it could be stored forever.
Once you post something over the internet, search engines keep them
in their archives for search results.
Think Before You Click

Here are things you might want to consider before posting something over the
internet.
1. Before you post something on the web, ask questions to yourself first.
2. Your friends depends on you to protect their reputation online. Talk to your
friends about this serious responsibility.
3. Set you post to “private”. In this way, search engines will not be able to
scan that post.
4. Avoid using names.
5. If you feel that a post can affect you or others reputation, ask the one who
posted it to pull it down or better report it.
Copyright Infridgement

 As a responsible internet user, you have to consider that not everithing out
there is free for you to use. Just like your own, contents that you see from
the website have their own respective copyrights. There are several
instances where employees or business owners face copyright infringement
and are sentenced to a huge fine due to reckless copying of materials.
 Here are some to avoid copyright infringement:

1. Understand- copyrights protects literacy works, photographs,films,music

and etc, but generally does NOT protect underlying ideas and facts. This
means that you can express something using your own words, but you
should give credits to the source.
2. Be responsible- even if the material say that it is not copyrighted, it is not a
valid defense against a copyright. Be responsible enough to know if
something has a copyright.
3. Be creative- ask yourself whether what you are making is something that
comes from you or something made by someone’s else’s creativity. It is
important to add your own creative genius in everything that will be
credited to you.
4. Know the Law- there are some limitations to copyright laws. For instance in
the Philippines, copyrights only last a lifetime (of the author) plus 50 years.
There are also provisions for “fair use” which means that an intellectual
property maybe used without a consent as long as it is used in commentaries,
critisms, search engines, parodies, news reports and etc. If you have doubts
that what you are doing does not fall under the policy of fair use, seek
permission first.