31) P3P encrypts or scrambles e-mail or data so that it cannot be read illicitly.
32) Protection for trade secrets is enforced at the federal level.
33) Copyright is the legal protection afforded intellectual property, such as a song, book, or video game.
34) The Copyright Office began registering software programs in the 1990s.
35) The drawback to copyright protection is that the underlying ideas behind the work are not protected, only their manifestation in a product.
36) According to the courts, in the creation of software, unique concepts, general functional features, and even colours are protectable by copyright law.
37) The key concepts in patent law's determination of nonobviousness are originality, novelty, and value.
38) Despite the passage of several laws defining and addressing computer crime, accessing a computer system without authorization is not yet a federal crime.
39) Spam is unsolicited e-mail.
40) The European Parliament has passed a ban on unsolicited commercial messaging.