1. Copyright URLs
EIT, Author Gay Robertson, 2017

2. Why are you looking at all the Act
Why are you looking at all the Act? As part of Digital Citizenship, you need to demonstrate honesty and integrity and ethical behaviour in your use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT)

3. Copyright Act 1994 What is Copyright?
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What are the rules of Copyright? URL: You can also download information sheets from here
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4. Licensing
License types URL:
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5. Copyright and Fair Use on Blogs
GCF LearnFree tutorial on copyright and fair use when writing blogs
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6. Copyright infringement penalties
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7. Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 and Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011

8. Why the amendments to the Act?
Provides owners of copyrighted works such as movies, TV shows and music a quicker and easier way to penalise people infringing their copyright via online file sharing.
The intention of the law changes is to crack down on peer-to-peer file sharing
Updates and clarifies how copyright applies to new technologies in the digital environment within a modern legal framework

9. What’s covered by the law changes?
Only online file sharing that infringes copyright
“Peer-to-peer File sharing” is defined by the new law as:
material uploaded or downloaded from the Internet (and)
using an application or network that enables the simultaneous sharing of material between multiple users (one computer connected to another, or connected to many others, sharing files across the internet)
Anything that doesn’t meet both parts of this definition is not covered by the new law.

10. What are the penalties? You get 2 warning notices then the 3rd notice
Then the copyright owner can take you to the Copyright Tribunal
Depending upon circumstances, the penalty is up to a maximum $15,000 payable to the copyright owner
The person who owns the Internet account (account holder) is liable, even if he or she wasn’t the person who broke the law
You can be disconnected from the internet for up to 6 months
Allegations of copyright infringement made against you (the account holder) by the copyright owner are presumed to be correct unless you give evidence or reasons why you aren’t guilty

11. As part of being a digital citizen, you must be aware of the following implications ..
You must be thoroughly professional and ethical in your actions by not infringing copyright of software, electronic documents, music, images etc
Act provides for legal action against copyright infringement. Copyright infringement is NOT a criminal offence, but you can be sued by the copyright owner
If you are working, an organisation will pass any costs associated to individual account holder or employee (YOU)
All users of IT systems are responsible for their own account

12. Want to know more …
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