week 12

Week 12
In today’s lecture we covered information dealing with social and ethical issues. The lecture had five different sections.
The unique characteristics of the Internet2. Intellectual Property3. Plagiarism4. Security and privacy5. How to protect yourself.
The internet does not have anybody that controls what is put out there, this means any type of information can be put on the internet and we cant stop it. The Internet doesn’t have much protection from people and a lot of your things are not very safe, people can get your house and other information from the net and can use this against you. To help this we are told not to give out our personal information on different websites like Myspace and Facebook.
Task 1
Copyright information sheets
1- Research or study

When using material that is not our own work we are aloud to use this and get away with it, we just have to show evidence of referencing there work and not passing it off as our own work. This information is determined as fair copy if less or equal to 10 percent is the same as the original if not direct quoted.
2- Recipes
When making a recipe we are aloud to create it at home and write the recipe out in our own words but we cant try and sell it as our own recipe. This is called passing off and is illegal. Copyright on recipes last for around 70 years.
3- Photographers
When a photographer takes pictures he or she is generally the legal person of those pictures. This means that if you were to buy some off him or her and wanted to get them made up for lots of people you would have to ask for there permission or it would be classed as copyright and you can get in a lot of trouble. When a photo is taken it is protected from that very second and there is no registration for copyright in Australia.
4- Music
The copyright for music is free and will automatically apply as soon as the music is created. Music can be in two different parts the words and the beat these two parts can be copyrighted separately.

5- Owners of copyright
A physical item that belongs to a museum or gallery does not mean they have copyright for that item. If an owner has died then the copyright may of passed on to another person making it theirs and you would have to contact them for the copyright details not the dead.

Task 2
The website http://www.apra.com.au/music-users/online_mobile/online_mobile.asp talks to us about music online and how it is being used and manipulated. People are these days finding free programs that allow you to download music for free, this is bad due to the fact that with this music artists and other people don’t get paid as people are getting there music free and not having to worry about paying for it. But for people that do want to do the right thing there are programs that are legal and you buy music off the net so that the artist get a fair go with there music, these two programs are AMCOS and APRA.
Task 3
With this task we are asked to make a plan to help protect us against the Internet so we don’t get virus and other computer nasties.
When using the internet to help protect myself from the net I would not do the following, 1 a major one never give out personal information and bank details to people I didn’t know or might think is not who they say they are. 2 never reply to emails that seem dodgy or have information that I don’t know in and 3 have virus scanners and firewalls on my computer to help prevent people entering and takin my information.