Computer legislation 2
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- Created on: 10-04-19 13:56
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- Computer legislation
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
- CDPA is to protect intellectual property - anything someone has created
- Copyright covers written or recorded content
- Makes it illegal to share copyrighted files without the owners permission
- Patents cover new inventions - they protect ideas and concepts
- The internet has made it harder to protect copyrighted content due to the ease of file sharing
- Illegal file sharing takes place over peer-to-peer networks and cloud-based file-hosting websites
- Creative Commons license
- CC licences allow you to legally share media and software online
- 4 types of CC
- Attribution
- Work can be shared, copied or modified but the copyright holder has to be credited
- Share-alike
- Modified works can only be distributed with the same license as the original
- Non-commercial
- Nobody can use the copyrighted work for profit
- No derivative works
- The work can be copied and distributed, but cannot be built upon
- Attribution
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
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