in your pairs what is your law? why is it important to have the law? how was law broken? give...
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Copyright Law The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act has two main purposes: 1.To ensure people are rewarded for their work 2. To give protection to the copyright holder if someone tries to copy or steal their work.TRANSCRIPT
In your pairs
• What is your law?• Why is it important to have the law?• How was law broken?• Give examples of how to avoid being prosecuted under
the law or when you might be prosecuted
Objectives
• To identify and explain the key aspects of the Copyright law in relation to ICT
Copyright Law
The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act has two main purposes:
1. To ensure people are rewarded for their work
2. To give protection to the copyright holder if someone tries to copy or steal their work.
Copyright and ICT
These are all offences under the copyright law:
• Copying software • Copying or downloading music • Copying images or photographs from the web • Copying text from webpages and using it in your
work or posting it onto your website and pretending it is your own work.
Is this Chinese company breaking copyright law?
Ji ‘a’ po KFC
Software Licences• Single User Licence - The software can be used on just
one computer
• Multi User Licence – This lets a certain number of people use the software at the same time e.g. 20. The 21st person cannot use the software until one person logs off or shuts it down.
• Site Licence – This allows everyone on that site or in an office to use the software. It can be loaded onto every machine and anyone on the site can use it.
Myths about copyright" I didn't know so I'm not guilty"• You won't get way with saying ‘I’m sorry, I didn’t know’. If you copy
things and pass them off as your own, you are guilty of breaching Copyright..
"If it doesn't have a copyright notice, it is not copyrighted." • Any original work is copyright, whether it has a copyright notice on
or not.
"If I don't charge for it, I can copy it’• It doesn't matter if you charge someone or not.
Breaking the copyright laws can result in very heavy penalties - you can get a hefty fine and even get sent to jail!
Extension• Find examples of people going to court or jail for
downloading music or films and explain these in your work.
• You could use this website to find links to news about copyright:
http://www.teach-ict.com/news/news_stories/news_copyright.htm