562202
Description
Copyright Designs
and Patents Act of
1988
- To protect
the rights
of those
who create
and
produce
material
based on
original
ideas
- Intellectual
Property
- Avoids higher prices
for those who but legally
and encourages
software houses to be
innovative
- Intellectual
Property
- Copyright
- Comes into
effect
immediately as
soon as
something is
'fixed' in
someway
- No official register for copyright, but
it is a good idea to mark work with
the copyright symbol, your name
and the date
- Type of work protected
- Original literary works
- Original dramatic works
- Original musical works
- Original artistic works
- Published editions of works
- sound recordings
- films, including videos
- podcasts/
broadcasts
- Original literary works
- Does not protect
ideas, it protects the
way in which it is
expressed
- Comes into
effect
immediately as
soon as
something is
'fixed' in
someway
- Website copyright conditions
- Copyright also
covers the content
on websites
- copyright information
often shown in the
'conditions of use' or
'copyright statement'
- Copyright
statements might
be attached as a
footnote to
electronically
stored materials
and school web
pages.
- Copyright also
covers the content
on websites
- Software piracy
- involves the illegal copying of computer software.
- Individuals
borrowing
CDs or
software
and
putting it
on their
own
computer
- Professional criminals making copies in bulk
and selling them through illegal outlets
- Individuals
borrowing
CDs or
software
and
putting it
on their
own
computer
- End User
License
Agreement
(EULA)
- Purchaser does not 'own'
the software but has
purchased the right to
use it
- Single User
- can only be
loaded onto
one machine
- can only be
loaded onto
one machine
- Multi User
- bought for a certain
number of users
- bought for a certain
number of users
- Site license
- bought for
everyone on
that that site
or in an office
to use the
software.
- bought for
everyone on
that that site
or in an office
to use the
software.
- Purchaser does not 'own'
the software but has
purchased the right to
use it
- involves the illegal copying of computer software.
- Copyright issues
- Technical solutions -
giving each copy of
the software a digital
signature
- Enforcement -
taking court
action against
an individual or
an
organisation
- Education - to alert people to the
indirect costs that resulted from
software piracy
- Abandon copyright -
software should be seen as
'public good'
- Difficulties in prevention
- many don't
see it as a
crime
- privacy laws
prevent
investigation
unless there is a
suspicion
- copying takes
place in
countries less
regulated
- many don't
see it as a
crime
- Technical solutions -
giving each copy of
the software a digital
signature
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