Legal Framework for e-Government

By

Thushara Suraweera

Programme Specialist, ICTA

e-Government Legal Requirements

Intellectual Property Act No. 36 of 2003

Electronic Transactions Act No. 19 of 2006

Computer Crime Act No. 24 of 2007

1. Intellectual Property Act

WHY ?To protect Intellectual Property…

Know what rights you have and what you don’t…

1. Intellectual Property Act

©Exclusive rights

granted to the author or creator of an original work.

Cont.

1. Intellectual Property Act

Economic Rights - Licensed Software

Right to use

Licenses are expensive…!!!MS Office Professional 2010 with Word, Excel, PP, Access, Outlook, Publisher : US $ 499.99

MS Office Home and Business 2010 with Word, Excel, PP, Outlook : US $ 279.99

Source : www.microsoft.com downloaded on (29-06-2010)

Cont.

1. Intellectual Property Act

Pirated Software? ……NO.

If convicted…LKR 500,000 and/or 6 months imprisonment

LGNNo budget…….What now…..!!!!

?

Cont.

1. Intellectual Property Act

Do you know….!!!

Original ownership of economic rights….

Section 14(4)

If the work is created pursuant to a commission,the original owner of economic rights shall be,

unless otherwise provided in a contract, the person who commissioned the work.

Cont.

2. Electronic Transactions Act

Facilitates e-Government

Section 8 : Recognizes e-Gov activitiesProvides for the filing, creation, retention, issue and grant of licenses, receipt of payment of money or procurement in electronic form Facilitates e-Government

Section 8 (2)Procedures and criteria for Use of Electronic Recordsand e-Signatures in Government (to be effected byRegulations)

3. Computer Crime Act

Computer Crimes Act criminalises….

attempts at unauthorised access to

(a) computer or

(b) any information held in any Computer

and doing same for the commission of any other

offence

Q & A

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