COMP6023 DWEB1/ITM1 Class 33 Copyright & Patents

We quickly reviewed some of the copyright issues we considered in the last class.

We looked at Patents

COMP6023 Legal Issues Handouts

I believe I have accurately gauged the demand for paper handouts on the legal aspects of web publishing that we will be discussing over the next few classes. But if I have not, you can find links to everything here.

If you want even more please go to the COMP6023 resources page.

Libel
Tweet Revenge: Tory to sue 10,000 Twitter users who branded him a paedo.

Lalit Modi loses appeal against £90,000 libel award.

Facebook Libel.

Court refuses access to papers.

Lawyers for Rehab force website to remove article.

High Stakes in Oprah's Cow Row.

Movie could not libel mobster.


Image
Sarkozy and Bruni win Ryanair Payout.


Hate Speech
Bob Dylan investigated over incitement to racial hatred claim.

Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act (2006).

David Irving jailed for Holocaust denial.


Copyright
Who owns Sherlock Holmes?


Trade Secrets
Injunctions granted to spice burger firm.


Patents & Trademarks
People's Republic of Cork Trade Mark at Irish Patents Office


Privacy & Filtering
Max Mosley wins landmark privacy case against Google over S&M pictures.

COMP6023 DNET1/COM1c Class 33 Legal Issues: Free Speech, Copyright

We looked at Free Speech and its limits. We discussed libel, hate speech, and blasphemy.

We began our look at intellectual property issues and discussed copyright. We will continue with copyright in the next class.

COMP6023 DWEB1/ITM1 Class 30 Legal Issues

I talked a little bit about libel, hate speech, and community standards.

We began looking at copyright and will continue in the next class.

[No recording of this class]

COMP6023 Class 15 ITS1

We looked at indexed colour for coding images and dithering.

COMP6023 Class 05 DNET/DCOM

I identified the team captains for the Google contest and I asked student to make a start on organizing themselves into teams.  Team captains need to follow the link onf the blog and register with Google.

We discussed patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. It was a bit rushed in the end. For a more leisurely discussion, students can watch the recording of the class with one of the other student cohorts.

Today's class was interesting. It's nice when students join in. Although some looked like they had had a rough night.

COMP6023 Class 05 ITS

We talked about patents, trade marks, and trade secrets

COMP6023 Class 06 DWEB/ITM

We looked at Patents, Trade Marks, and Trade Secrets

COMP6023 Class 04 ITS

We looked again at copyright and considered collage and making new works from old. We listened to Frontier Psychiatrist by The Avalanches and Stronger by Kanye West, and discussed how the nature of the use was different. Someone said that Daft Punk sued Kanye West and lost, but I don't know that that's the case.

COMP6023 Class 04 DWEB/ITM

We began our look at intellectual property. Today we discussed Copyright.

Slides: ip.pdf

COMP6023 Week 05 suggestions

Students who want to earn more than the minimum marks for Week 05 may want to consider some of the follow options

find and link to

• interesting patents
• interesting or unusual trademarks
• interesting court cases (e.g Walsh Family Foods Limited Spice Burger cases)

express opinions music downloading

express opinions on intellectual property

download some of the work of "GirlTalk" and imagine you are the Judge in a case against him. What would you decide? Is it Fair Use? Is it the musical equivalent of a collage?