1. Lesson Objectives Aims You should be able to:
Discuss legislation relevant to computer science:
Data Protection Act – 1998
Computer Misuse Act – 1990
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act – 1988
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Creative Commons Licenses

2. For each law you need to know:
The key principles
What they mean in reality
Areas the law applies to

3. Task
In the shared are you will find a file called “laws and legislation”
This outlines the principles of each law that you need to learn
Your task is to fill in the table on the next slide AFTER you have read this document, printed it and stuck it in your book.

4. Examples of things this would apply to Potential sentence/fine
Act
Principles
Examples of things this would apply to
Potential sentence/fine
Data protection act
Computer Misuse Act
Copyright, designs and patents act
Freedom of information act

5. CC License
The Creative Commons license has been bunged on the spec…
You’ll know about this from the lesson on Open Source Software
But just in case, find out what it is now and add it to your notes.