Tidy up

docs/lectures/ethics/04_professional_responsibilities.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ This means:
 - Appropriate steps are taken to avoid harm
 - Systems are robust, secure and respect privacy
 - Rules are followed
-- Special care is taken when modifying or retiring systems or systems are integrated in societal infrastructure
+- Special care is taken when modifying or retiring systems or when systems are integrated into societal infrastructure
 
 ### Public Good
 
@@ -32,17 +32,17 @@ This means:
 - Entirely natural
 - Can be mitigated
 - Draws our attention to micro-issues
-  - for example discriminate against people of tattoos, or people with piercings
-- Can have an squally detrimental effect as the big issues
-  - Design to minimise unconscious bias
+    - For example, discriminating against people with tattoos or people with piercings
+- Can have an equally detrimental effect as the big issues
+    - Design to minimise unconscious bias
 
 ### Respect the Work of Others
 
 - Do no harm
 - Do not hack
-  - Unless public good requires it or you are authorised to do so
+    - Unless public good requires it or you are authorised to do so
 - Respect intellectual property rights (IPR)
-  - Relevant types of IPR: trade marks, industrial designs, patents, trade secrets, databases & domain names
+    - Relevant types of IPR: trade marks, industrial designs, patents, trade secrets, databases & domain names
 
 #### IPR
 
@@ -61,16 +61,16 @@ Distinctive elements of a product
 Used where products have a short design life e.g. fashion
 
 - Two types of protection
-  - Registered Community designs (RCD)
-    - Protection lasts **5** years, renewed up to **25** years
-  - Unregistered Community designs (UCD)
-    - Protection lasts for **3** years
+    - Registered Community designs (RCD)
+        - Protection lasts **5** years, renewed up to **25** years
+    - Unregistered Community designs (UCD)
+        - Protection lasts for **3** years
 
 ###### Patent
 
 - An exclusive right granted to protect an invention
-  - Prevents others from making, using, offering for sale, selling or importing invention without owner's permission
-- Lasts for **20** years from date of filed
+    - Prevents others from making, using, offering for sale, selling or importing invention without owner's permission
+- Lasts for **20** years from the filing date
 - Costs between $3,000 and \$6,000
 - Can't patent a computer program only a "computer-implemented invention"
 
@@ -85,31 +85,31 @@ Used where products have a short design life e.g. fashion
 
 - Confidential business information that provides a competitive advantage
 - Must put reasonable measures in place to keep it a secret
-  - Store safely, implement NDAs
+    - Store safely, implement NDAs
 - Do not confer proprietary rights
 - Protected by law for an unlimited time period
 
 ###### Copyright
 
 - Author's or creator's right to protection over uses of their work
-  - Ideas cannot be copyrighted, only the concrete implementation of the idea
+    - Ideas cannot be copyrighted, only the concrete implementation of the idea
 - Obtained automatically
-- Includes economic rights (renumeration for use by others)]
+- Includes economic rights (remuneration for use by others)
 - Fair use allowed
-- Covers life-time of owners plus **50-70** years
+- Covers lifetime of owners plus **50-70** years
 
 ###### Databases
 
 - A systematic arrangement of data, works or materials
 - Two forms:
-  - Original
-    - Protection lasts lifetime + 50-70 years
-  - Non-original (like a phone directory)
-    - Protected by *sui generis* database right which lasts for **15** years
+    - Original
+        - Protection lasts lifetime + 50-70 years
+    - Non-original (like a phone directory)
+        - Protected by *sui generis* database right which lasts for **15** years
 
 ###### Domain Names
 
-- Registered by ICANN registars
+- Registered by ICANN registrars
 - Not protected by copyright
 - May be protected by a registered trade mark
 - Last up to **10** years, renewed indefinitely
@@ -118,11 +118,11 @@ Used where products have a short design life e.g. fashion
 
 Don't go too far in protecting your own works
 
-###### Sony Rookit
+###### Sony Rootkit
 
-They produced CDs that when entered into a computer downloaded a rootkit which gained administrator control on the victims computer. 
+They produced CDs that, when inserted into a computer, downloaded a rootkit which gained administrator control on the victim’s computer.
 
-Rookit modified the victims OS, limiting the users ability to use the CD.
+The rootkit modified the victim’s OS, limiting the user’s ability to use the CD.
 
 **Profoundly unethical and illegal**