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What is Software Copyright

Software copyright protects original software creations, granting the creator exclusive rights to its use and distribution, with penalties for infringement. Blogs are personal or interest-based websites allowing individuals to publish their thoughts easily, while wikis are collaborative platforms where users can edit and contribute content, often leading to inaccuracies. Both blogs and wikis have become popular for sharing information, but users should critically evaluate the reliability of the content.

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What is Software Copyright

Software copyright protects original software creations, granting the creator exclusive rights to its use and distribution, with penalties for infringement. Blogs are personal or interest-based websites allowing individuals to publish their thoughts easily, while wikis are collaborative platforms where users can edit and contribute content, often leading to inaccuracies. Both blogs and wikis have become popular for sharing information, but users should critically evaluate the reliability of the content.

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What is Software Copyright?

 When someone creates an original piece of software, that person then holds
something called the copyright for that software. (This is also true when people
create books, films and songs.)

Rent the software to other people

 Install the software on a network when other users can access it (unless it is a
special ‘network’ version)

If someone breaks the copyright, they can be punished by fines or even


by imprisonment.

The reason for this is that creating software can involve the work of many people and
may take thousands of hours. It is only fair that all of this effort is protected

Holding the copyright for software means that you have the protection of the law if
anyone tries to steal your software.

Under copyright law, people must not:

 Copy the software for other people

 Lend the software to other people

Blogs and Blogging

A blog is a website where someone (usually a normal person - not a professional writer)
writes about a topic.

Blogs can be personal (someone writing about their own life, or their personal views),
based on an interest (e.g. football), or some businesses also use blogs to write about
new products, etc.
A blog allows someone to be a writer and publisher on the Web with very little effort or
cost. A blog can be setup with just a few clicks, whereas a few years ago you'd need a
lot of technical knowledge to create your own website.

Many blogs have systems that allow readers to leave comments and begin discussions
connected with the blog posts.

Blogging (the act of writing a blog) has become very popular over the past decade or so
(there are well over 200 million unique blogs).

Some blogs are very popular and have hundreds of thousands of readers, but many are
only read by a tiny number of readers (probably just the writer's family and friends!)

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Blogs allow people to publish their views and opinions very easily, without anyone else
checking what they are writing. For this reason, it is very important that you do not take
the viewpoints expressed on blogs as facts - they are just one person's opinion and
maybe factually very wrong.

Wikis

A wiki is a website that allows users to collaborate (work together) to create the
content. The pages of a wiki can be edited by everyone (or those who have the
password) so that different people can add to the page, edit things, fix errors, etc.

Wikis often automatically create automatic links between pages. E.g. if a wiki page
exists called 'Camels' and you write the word 'camel', the word will become a link to the
Camel page. This feature means that wikis are very useful for creating sites containing
lots of connected information.
Wikis are used for websites such as:

 Encyclopaedia (e.g. Wikipedia)

 Help sites (e.g. This site for Ubuntu Linux)

Because many people can edit pages on a wiki, you have to be aware that the
information you read may not be entirely accurate - sometimes people edit pages and
write things that are wrong. Usually the errors are noticed and fixed by other wiki users,
but not always.

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