Copyright design & patents Act.

9th Jan 2020

Copyright design & Patents Act.

You can copy right;
Film,
Literature,
TV Programs,
Song/Music,
Pictures,
Games,
and software.

Google says:

Copyright means 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.

Patent means 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.



The Computers Misuse Act.

This act was created in 1990 by the UK Government, and this legislation was passed to criminalize unauthorized access to computing systems. As well as harsher punishment for those who then go and use those account that they haven't been authorised to use to use them for criminal activity's.

There are three stages to this act and they are:
Stage 1- Unauthorized access to a system and copying the files.
Stage 2 - Unauthorized access to a system, copying the files and corrupting/deleting off of the original file/save location.
Stage 3 - Unauthorized access to a system to the be used for other criminal activity(E.G Fraud or base for a hack to frame others and keep the hackers name clear.

Punishments for any stage of The computer misuse act can be any ware from 6 months imprisonment up to a number of life sentence depending on the scale of the illegal action.