Chapter Summary

It's hard to predict precisely what legal and investigation material will be covered on the exam. Technology, law, and methods are changing, and even experts can disagree on what is right, what is wrong, what is important, and what is not important. It is hoped that you gain an intuitive sense of the subject by studying this chapter and the materials cited in it.

This chapter introduced the intellectual property concepts of patent, copyright, and trade secret and explained that serious copyright and trade secret violations can be crimes. It identified other key American computer crime laws: the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Wiretap Act, the Electronic Communication Protection Act, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. ...

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