... definitely made the copying and distribution of intellectual objects a lot easier, but on the other hand they have managed to create a number of new legal and ethical issues about the intellectual property rights at the same time. Not only had the computer technologies provide high quality copying and distribution, but it is also known to be relatively cheap. [2] There are three main types of legal protection found in the concept of Intellectual property; copyrights, patents and trademarks, these categories were produced in the UK by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1998. A website design is related to Copyrights protection and also the trademarks protection, however if specific software is embedded such as an online shopping system, the website can then be patented. Copyrights protection is used to cover published and unpublished literary, scientific and artistic works, whatever the form of expression, provided such works are fixed in ...

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