1. Software piracy and software patents7
Chapter
Software piracy and software patents
2nd and 3rd Week of the Semester

2. What is Software Piracy?
Composed of two categories
Piracy
Counterfeiting

3. Piracy comes in several varieties
End User Piracy
Re-seller Piracy (counterfeiting)
BBS/Internet Piracy
Trademark/Trade Name Infringement

4. End User Piracy Copying the same software onto more than one computer.
Copying office software onto a home computer.
Loaning your software to someone else so that the person can make a copy.
Making a copy and selling the software to someone else.
Selling old software.

5. Re-seller Piracy
An individual or company who takes one copy of software and deliberately reproduces it with fake certificates so that those who purchase it believe it is being purchased from the company which developed it .
Many peoples may have the same serial number.

6. BBS/Internet Piracy
Distribution of copyrighted software via the Internet or a bulletin board system.
Sites which are set up to distribute software have made arrangements with the software owners to make their software available.

7. Trademark/Trade Name Infringement
Improper use of a registered trademark.

8. Effects of Software Piracy on the Pirate
Expense, embarrassment, ethically wrong
Fines up to $250,000
Jail sentence of up to 5 years
Payment of legal fees (your own and the company suing you)
Business Software Alliance received $5 million in settlements in 1995 alone for software copyright infringement (BSA)

9. Software Licenses
All software comes with a license which specifically states the terms and conditions under which the software may be legally used.
Faculty, staff and students at educational institutions and organizations are not exempt from copyright laws. 15 15

10. Six simple steps to avoid piracy
Buy from an authorized dealer
Understand what it is you are buying
Check the prices and ask for itemized quotations and receipts
Be sure you are given a license
Retain the original media
Call the software publisher

11. Copyright
A copyright is a right of intellectual property which is granted to authors whereby they obtain, for a limited time, exclusive rights to their works
financial and other rights
Copyright is federal law that ties to the “copyright clause” of the U.S. Constitution

12. How do You Know if Something is copyrighted?
Assume that everything that requires someone to have thought about it is copyrighted
A copyright notice is NOT required, although many people do add the copyright notice
The copyright notice includes the name, a © and a date of (first) publication

13. What Does Copyright Protect?
Basically all intellectual work including
Multimedia works (records, videos, audiotapes)
Printed works (books, journal articles)
Websites (text, documents, and graphics)
Architecture
Software (even freeware!)

14. What Does it Not Protect?
Ideas
Facts
Names
Titles
Phrases

15. Copyright Websites
Business Software Alliance. Guide to Software Management - Copyright Law