Thursday, March 2

The Legal Eagle

Lynne Norris is a Legistlation and Law lecturer at the UWIC business school. Her visit brought up some really interesting topics especially as most of us will be moving into the dangerous world of work soon.

Since 2003 we as designers have more power and protection. The law now understands that ideas cannot be copyrighted, but the expression of an idea no matter the chosen media can be safeguarded.

One important issue to take away from today's talk was that if you are working as part of a large organisation, any work you produce belongs to them. You will retain the authorship rights but 'the man' owns it! Bastards!

Also in 2003 the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations were set up. This helps protect us from all the crap the internet washes up; spam, junk mail and viri.

Overall, Lynne's presentation was very informative and made me feel slightly more reassured for the future.

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