Saturday, December 02, 2006

LECTURE NUMBER SEVEN

AFTER A BREAK TODAY I AM GOING TO SAY ABOUT MY EXPERIENCE IN THE SEVENTH LECTURE OF MACROMEDIA.OH!!! I FORGOT NOW IT IS NO MORE MACROMEDIA AND IT IS ONLY ABOUT INTERNET APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT.THE THEME OF THE LECTURE FOR THE SEVENTH WEEK WAS IPR AND COPYRIGHT ISSUES.

ACCORDING TO WHAT THE LECTURER SAID THERE ARE TWO BRANCHES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THEY ARE;

  • COPYRIGHT
  • INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY

COPYRIGHT INCLUDES CHIEFLY LITERARY,MUSICAL,ARTISTIC,PHOTOGRAPHIC AND AUDIO VISUAL WORKS WHERE AS THE INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY INCLUDES MAINLY INVENTIONS AND TRADEMARKS.FURTHER MORE THE LECTURER MENTIONED THAT THE FOLLOWING FIELDS ARE BEING PROTECTED BY THE COPYRIGHT ACT.

  • LITERARY WORK SUCH AS WRITTEN WORK AND EVEN COMPUTER BASED WORK
  • DRAMATIC WORK SUCH AS DANCE OR MIME
  • MUSICAL WORK SUCH AS WORK CONSISTING OF MUSIC

ACCORDING TO THE ACT OF COPYRIGHT THE FOLLOWING CANNOT BE COPIED.

  • IDEAS
  • FACTS
  • TITLES
  • NAMES
  • SHORT PHRASES
  • BLANK FORM

THE LECTURER ALSO SAID THAT IF THE WORK IS COMPUTER GENERATED THEN THE COPYRIGHT EXPIRES AT THE END OF THE PERIOD OF 50 YEARS AND ALSO SHE STATED THAT THE COPYRIGHT WORKS ON THE NET INCLUDE THING LIKE NEW STORIES,SOFTWARE,NEWS AND E MAILS.

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THAT THE NEW INVENTIONS CAN BE PROTECTED BY MEANS OF PATENTS AND TO BE PATENT AN INVENTION MUST BE,

  • NEW
  • INVOLVE AN INVENTIVE STEP
  • BE CAPABLE OF INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION
  • MUST NOT BE EXCLUDED FROM THE PATENT ACT

THEN AT THE LATTER PART OF THE LECTURE THE LECTURER ALSO MENTIONED ABOUT THE TRADEMARKS AND THE EXAMPLE THAT SHE STATED WAS HOW THE MY COLA CAME INTO THE FIELD AFTER BEING COPIED FROM COCA-COLA.

SINCE NO MORE MACROMEDIA IS INVOLVED, NO FLASH CLIPS TOO.BUT INSTEAD THE LECTURER SHOWED US SOME WEB SITES WHERE THE COPYRIGHT ISSUES AND PATENT ACTS ARE BEING CONSIDERED.SOME OF WHICH WERE;

  • COPYRIGHT WEBSITE
  • THE COPYRIGHT LICENSING AGENCY
  • THE UK COPYRIGHT SERVICE
  • UK PATENT OFFICE

FOR THIS WEEK THE LECTURE WAS PRETTY MUCH FORMAL I GUESS,ET IT WAS INTERESTING.THE THEMES FOR THE TUTORIAL THIS WEEK WAS MENU THAT STAYS AND THE MENU THAT DISAPPEARS.I FOUND IT VERY HARD BECAUSE I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT SHOULD BE DONE AND THEREFORE I COULD NOT DO IT.I WONDER WHETHER I WILL BE ABLE TO MANAGE MY SELF TO GO AHEAD WITH THIS MODULE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS....

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