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Professional Practices: Course Code (SSH-307)
Professional Practices: Course Code (SSH-307)
Course Code
(SSH-307)
Topics for Discussions
• Secondary • Remedies For Breach of
Infringement Copyright
• Copy Protection • License and Assignment
• Acts Permitted in Copy Rights
Relation to Copyright • Designs
Works • Trademark
• Fair Dealing • Comparative Advertising
• Back-up of Computer • Pirated Goods and
Programs Offences Law
• Transfers of Works in • Domain Name
Electronic form
CopyRights
Secondary Infringement
•Like primary infringement, secondary infringement
breaches the civil rights of a copyright owner, but
most importantly, secondary infringement may also
amount to a criminal offence, punishable by a fine
and/or imprisonment. Secondary infringement is
therefore a much more serious matter and is
designed to catch those who trade in, and who
therefore make a profit from, pirated goods; or who
provide the apparatus or premises for infringing
performances of copyright works.
Copyrights
Secondary infringement occurs, for example, where a
person
•Imports an infringing copy other than for private and
domestic use
•Possesses an infringing copy in the course of a
business
•Sells or lets for hire an infringing copy
•Exhibits in public or distributes an infringing copy in
the course of a business
•Distributes infringing copies otherwise than in the
course of a business to such an extent as to affect
prejudicially the owner of the copyright
Copy Protection
Introduction
Copy protection also known as content protection ,
copy prevention and copy restriction, is any effort
designed to prevent the reproduction of software, film,
music, and other media , usually for copyright
reasons.
Companies took a decision to prevent the reproduction
so that they will gain benefit from each person who
obtain authorized copy of their product.
Unauthorized copying and distribution accounted for
$2.4billion in lost revenue in the United State only in
1990.
Copy Protection
Above mention Revenues were impacts on Music and
Video game industry.
it also inconvenience for honest consumers, or it
secretly installed additional or unwanted software to
detect copying activities on consumers computer.
making copy protection effective while protecting
consumer rights is still an ongoing problem with media
publication.
Acts permitted in relation
to copyright works 6
Some acts are permitted under the 1988 Act, even
though they would otherwise amount to breach of
copyright. The range of these has been extended by
the EC Directive on the Legal Protection of Computer
Programs and by the Copyright (Computer
Software)Regulations 1992 which have amended the
1988 Act. It is not proposed to discuss all of the acts
permitted by the 1988 Act, but rather to select those
of greatest importance for software engineers.
Fair dealing 6.1
Fair dealing
•To fall within the fair dealing provisions and thus not
to infringe copyright, copying must be for one of the
following purposes: