Title:	INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AWARENESS OF SULSIT STUDENTS: SURVEY RESULTS AND CURRICULA REFLECTION
Author(s):	Tereza Trencheva, Stoyan Denchev
ISBN:	978-989-8533-48-7
Editors:	Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2016
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Intellectual Property, Internet, students’ knowledge and awareness, State University of Library Studies and Information Technologies (SULSIT)
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	79
Last Page:	86
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Intellectual property is directly related to the information that contains in its objects. In other words, Intellectual property is the ownership of information containing in intellectual products and their creators have full ownership of them. Developing with an unusually rapid pace, the Internet is a phenomenon not only in geographical but also in socio-legal sense. Internet is changing the familiar socio-economic paradigms and Intellectual property law is no exception to this. Problems studied in this paper are gaining currency in order to increase the role and importance of the Internet which has become an integral part of the look of the modern student society. The fact is that students are the largest group of our society which benefits research products and materials on the Internet. This paper presents a sub-study which is a result of a survey that explores the attitudes of young people, students, respectively, to the protection of Intellectual property in the digital space. The survey is part of the empirical study "Intellectual Property Protection on the Internet", conducted among the students in nine Bulgarian universities accredited in the educational and professional field “Public Communication and Information Science". The State University of Library and Informational Technologies (SULSIT) is one of these nine universities as one of the main universities in Bulgaria, accredited in the mentioned yet professional field. In SULSIT the survey covered students from six different Bachelor programs at the Faculty of Library Studies and Cultural Heritage (FLSCH) and was conducted in the period October-November 2012. The target group consists of 190 effectively completed the questionnaire students of the Faculty. The analyses of the results outline two problem areas which need more attention from the academic staff and further improvements: 1st of them is the effectiveness of intellectual property training at the FLSCH of SULSIT (based of different IP courses); 2nd of them is the attitude of SULSIT students about intellectual property protection issues (based of a complex of question, combined in a profile).
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