INFO1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Worshipful Company Of Stationers And Newspaper Makers, Letters Patent, Virtual Representation
11 Jun 2018
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INFO1111 – Week 11
• Definition of Intellectual Property
• Types of copyright
• Restrictions on Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property
What is Intellectual Property
• The ownership ideas and control over the tangible or virtual representation of those
ideas. Use of another person’s intellectual property may or may not involve royalty
payments or permission, but should always include proper credit to the source
• http://foldoc.org/
• Having ownership and/or control means that you:
o Get to benefit
o Get to decide
History of IP
• 14th C: Letters patent
o Issued by monarch to establish right
• 1624: Statute of Monopolies
o Act of Parliament of England to address abuses of patents (by monopolizing
certain markets)
o Seen as the first statutory recognition of patent law
o Preserved patents for novel inventions
• 1710: Statute of Anne
o Copyright Act
o 1662: Licensing of the Press Act
▪ Gave authority to print literary works to The Stationer’s Company. Led to
censorship
o Copyright Act moved authority to authors
Scenario
• Videoing a street performance, who owns the copyright?
• For painted portraits
o Person commissioning the work is the first copyright owner
o However, the artist can sometimes set limitations on its use
• For commissioned photographs
o Photographer is the copyright owner
▪ Unless photographs are of a private or domestic nature
• For films
o The person who made the film
▪ Maker is the person who arranged the making of the film
• For commissioned films
o The commissioning party is the copyright owner
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Document Summary
Info1111 week 11: definition of intellectual property, types of copyright, restrictions on intellectual property. What is (cid:498)intellectual property(cid:499) (cid:498)the ownership ideas and control over the tangible or virtual representation of those ideas. Use of another person"s intellectual property may or may not involve royalty: having (cid:498)ownership(cid:499) and/or (cid:498)control means that you: payments or permission, but should always include proper credit to the source, http://foldoc. org, get to benefit, get to decide. History of ip: 14th c: letters patent. Led to censorship: copyright act moved authority to authors. Software copyright: software protected as literary work (in australia, usage governed by licensing agreements, ownership determined by, any agreements in place. If created as an employee during employment: employer is copyright owner, otherwise, creator of software (developer/s) Copyright principles: various ways to protect your ideas. Trade secrets: protect ideas by hiding them. If you have taken reasonable steps to keep an idea secret, it has protection under intellectual property law: hiding software.
