In this section I am going to be talking about the copyright design and patent act. The copyright design and patent act is designed to prevent illegal copying of data either to use as your own work or to use that information to sell as your own work.

 

Designed to prevent illegal copying of data. People who create something (from music to art to text own intellectual rights to their work and own a copyright immediately). It requires people to have to ask permission to use data that doesn’t belong to them.

The owner can:

Give permission freely

Give permission with conditions of use

Give permission providing it is paid for

Refuse permission

 

There are European directives that are designed to protect people’s data when being sent and received across Europe. It aims to resolve to problems with countries trying to impose their laws on other countries. The directives are 95/45/EC (2000) and 97/66/EC.