7 · Ethics and Ownership
7.1 Ethics and Ownership — the need for professional ethics, ethical bodies, copyright and intellectual property, software licensing, and artificial intelligence.
🧩 Jigsaw
83 concepts mapped to the syllabus
🎯 Pack
82 question/answer pairs
| 9618 tested | 9608 only | Untested | From SME | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jigsaw | 34 | 15 | 17 | 17 |
| Pack | 35 | 20 | 13 | 14 |
What to know about this topic
AI has no 9608 questions at all
The 9608 Legend’s AI section is empty. Every AI question in existence is 9618, 2021 onwards — and AI has appeared in every series. The
!infoand!abstractentries in 7.1.5 carry more weight than anywhere else in the vault.
The smallest topic, but not the easiest
83 concepts is the lowest count in Paper 1, and the content is the least technical. That makes it tempting to skip — but the mark schemes are strict about naming things (the specific licence type, the specific ethical principle) rather than describing them loosely.
Licensing types are where the marks are lost
Free software, freeware, shareware and open source are four distinct things with four distinct permission sets. Questions ask for the differences, and approximate answers score nothing.
Source material
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