Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Copyright in ICT
- Legislation
- Computer Misuse Act 1990
- This law makes it a
crime to access
someone else's
computer or log on
to a network to
steal or corrupt
data
- It has three levels of crime. these are:
- Unauthorised
access to computer
material
- Unauthorised
modification of computer
material
- Unauthorised access to a
computer with intent
- Data Protection Act 1998
- this law protects your
personal data by telling
companies they are
required by law to:
- Keep it secure
- Not to ask for
more
information
then they need
- Not to keep hold of
the information for
longer than they
need it
- to keep the information
they have on you up to
date and accurate
- Not to use the information for
any other purpose, without your
consent
- Copyright
- this protects people's
work from being used in
someone else's work
without permission
- all work has copyright.
even something you
download from the
internet
- Creative Commons Licence
- This allows the
Copyright
owner to give
permission for
there work to
use used freely
- The consequences of illegal file sharing
- your Internet Service Provider may
prevent you from using the internet
- If you are found guilty
you can be sent to
prison
- It has a
massive
impact on
the music
and film
industries