1. Intellectual Property
Includes the results of intellectual activities in the arts, sciences, and industry
The expression of intellectual property can be copyrighted.
Includes books, songs, movies, plays, AND software

2. Copyright law Based on respect for intellectual labour and creativity
Give rights to creators
Reward creator
Encourage innovation

3. Canadian Copyright Act
Bill C-60 and amendments
Includes rights
To acknowledgement
Of control over the form, manner and terms of publication and distribution
Creator doesn’t have to do anything.

4. Software How does the copyright law relate to software?
illegal to copy the copyrighted software unless authorized by the author or publisher
no notice is required
international

5. Software May I share it with others?
Ownership gives permission (license) to use it on one computer
See Borland

6. Software Can I make a copy to use both at home and at work?
copyright act permits you to make one copy
to adapt to your computer
for backup (must destroy this if you sell the software)
Some licenses allow this.

7. Software What if the purpose of copying is purely educational? No
U of C has an agreement with most publishers to copy small portions of printed work
Can Copy

8. Software What about the World Wide Web? the Web is a publishing medium
copyright belongs to the creator
must get permission to use it
text, graphics, software, video, audio, animation, …

9. Software Piracy
Software Piracy = illegal duplication of copyrighted software
Software industry is a $50 billion a year sector
Billions of dollars are lost each year to software pirates
One-third of all software is illegally copied

10. Classes of Software by License
Commercial
copyrighted: read the license
sold as individual copy or as a site-license
Shareware
try first, then pay
Open-source
in the public domain
others are free to use it

11. Open-source For example, the Free Software Foundation
Free software is a matter of liberty not price. You should think of "free" as in "free speech".

12. Open-source the GNU Project
“protect and promote the freedom to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer software”
James Gosling now vice-president of Sun and inventor of Java
As a student at UofC developed Emacs which is part of GNU project

13. Creative Commons Some Rights Reserved An Example license
Creative Commons Website

14. Canadian Copyright Reform 2005
1996 World Intellectual Property Organization (the “WIPO Treaties”).
Internet and digital technology
Rights holders will have an exclusive right to control the making available of copyright materials on the Internet.
This will clarify that the unauthorized posting or the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing of material on the Internet constitutes an infringement of copyright

15. Canadian Laws
ISPs will be exempt from liability for copyrighted material circulating on their networks over which they have no control or authority,
i.e., when they act purely as intermediaries. Copyright liability will remain with those persons, including ISPs, who post or transmit copyrighted material without authorization.
Copyright Reform 2005

16. Music Peer to peer file sharing Digital music sales
tripled in a year
~$0.8 billion (6% of industry)
Physical format sales $12.4 billion

17. Books – digitized on Web
Microsoft agreement with British Library
books and documents for free
Google Print
books for free---being sued
Amazon.com pay to view

18. Micael Geist
Access 2005 presentation
Website