1 Practical Issues Relating to Business Ethics in Hong Kong: Intellectual Property Compliance in the Healthy Enterprise.

2 Hong Kong must be creative!  Graphic design company produces creative output for business clients using pirated software?  Company calls for tenders for creative designs, then hawks ‘winning’ designs around for lowest bid?  Manufacturers in trade shows offer to make other people’s design items at lower price?

3 Copies of software, music, movies and recordings of TV broadcasts in business.

4 Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Amendments) « 知識產權 ( 雜項修訂 ) 條例 » Clarification of Copyright Ordinance Clarified Copyright Ordinance (Cap 528) to combat the use of certain copyright- infringing products in business 澄清《版權條例》 ( 第 528 章 ) ，以便打擊在 業務中使用侵犯版權物品

5 Amended Copyright Ordinance 經修訂的版權條例 Consequences of clarification 澄清後的後果 Under relevant circumstances, a person now commits a criminal offence regardless of whether the trade or business is involved in dealing in the infringing copies 在有關情況下，不論該貿易或業務是否涉及 侵犯版權物品的交易，一個人有可能犯上刑 事罪

6 Amended Copyright Ordinance 經修訂的版權條例 Example 例如 Company selling clothing 公司鎖售成衣 Needs computer software to support business activities 需要電腦軟件去支持商業活動 Buys one set of software licensed for use in one computer only 購買一套只可在一台電腦上使用的軟件

7 Amended Copyright Ordinance 經修訂的版權條例 Coverage of amended law criminal provisions 經修訂的條例之範圍  Computer software  Music  Movies  Recordings of television entertainment (non- news) programmes Infringing use of other types of copyright works in business can make a business liable to civil action.

8 Amended Copyright Ordinance 經修訂的版權條例 Making Copies of Copyright Works 複製版權作品 “Copies”  just “hard copies” “ 複製品 ”  只限 “ 複印文本 ” “Copying” includes storing the copyright work in any medium - even by electronic means “ 複製 ” 包括藉電子方法將作品存於任何 媒體

9 Amended Copyright Ordinance 經修訂的版權條例 Distribution of unauthorized copies of copyright works 分發未經許可的版權作品複製品 Businesses not distribute unauthorized copies, through the INTRANET (LAN) or INTERNET 請不要透過內聯網和互聯網，將未經許 可的複製品分發出去

10 Amended Copyright Ordinance 經修訂的版權條例 Internet Materials 互聯網上的資料 Software, movies, music and TV dramas on the INTERNET are equally protected by copyright law 互聯網上的版權作品，一樣受版權法律所保護 You can make a transient and incidental copy which is technically required for the viewing of a copyright work in an INTERNET browser (e.g. ‘caching’) 為了使用互聯網瀏覽器閱讀作品而技術上需要 製作一項短暫存在，是容許的

11 Amended Copyright Ordinance 經修訂的版權條例 Software Asset Management (SAM)  Make an individual in your Enterprise responsible for SAM.  List all your licensed software.  Issue a circular each year to your staff forbidding use of pirated software.  Carry out software audits.  Always budget for software together with computers.  BSA has instruction manuals and free software to assist with SAM.

12 Tenders for Goods and Services  Bids should be treated in confidence.  It is wrong to find a creative copyright work that you like from one supplier and then try to get another supplier to make it more cheaply.  Doing so infringes copyright.

13 Trade Fairs  It is wrong to do business by offering to make product designs shown by other traders at a lower price.  Doing so can infringe copyright.  It can also infringe patent and registered design rights.

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