Copyright designs & patents

Details of Homework

1. Complete your write up of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act and create a colourful mindmap.
2. Complete your write up of the Computer Misuse Act and create a colourful mindmap

You can copyright:

• Film,
• Literature,
• TV programs,
• Song/Music,
• Pictures,
• Games,
• Software.

Google definition of Copyright:"the exclusive and assignable legal right, given to the originator for a fixed number of years, to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material."

Google definition of patents:"a government authority or licence conferring a right or title for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention."

• Definition of Copyright Designs and Patents Act from Legislation.gov.uk- An Act to restate the law of copyright, with amendments; to make fresh provision as to the rights of performers and others in performances; to confer a design right in original designs; to amend the Registered Designs Act 1949; to make provision with respect to patent agents and trade mark agents; to confer patents and designs jurisdiction on certain county courts; to amend the law of patents; to make provision with respect to devices designed to circumvent copy-protection of works in electronic form; to make fresh provision penalising the fraudulent reception of transmissions; to make the fraudulent application or use of a trade mark an offence; to make provision for the benefit of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London; to enable financial assistance to be given to certain international bodies; and for connected purposes.

• Definition of Computer Misuse Act from Legislation.gov.uk-An Act to make provision for securing computer material against unauthorised access or modification; and for connected purposes.