Software piracy,
trademark infringement, and patent violation
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The Copyright,
Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48),
also known as the CDPA, is an Act of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom which
received Royal Assent on 15 November
1988.
It reformulates almost completely
the statutory basis of copyright law
(including performing rights) in the
United Kingdom, which had until then
been governed by the Copyright Act 1956
(c. 74. It also creates an unregistered
design right, and contains a number of
modifications to the law of the United
Kingdom on registered designs and
patents.
The unauthorised duplication of
copyrighted media works - from music
albums in MP3 format to full versions of
movies or software applications - is an
increasing concern in an age of
computers and free file sharing across
the Internet.
Given the proliferation of high speed
Internet access and free availability of
powerful file sharing software, many
individuals and corporations can find
themselves subject to prosecution,
completely unaware that their actions
(or the actions of their employees) have
been illegal in nature.
Our specialists can assist in all types
of Trading Standards, Federation Against
Software Theft (FAST) or Federation
Against Copyright Theft (FACT)
investigations and provide comprehensive
support for defence cases involving
alleged offences relating to the 'making
available for sale or hire' of
copyrighted works..
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Understanding Encryption
Encryption is the process of
transforming information (referred to as plaintext) to
make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing
special knowledge, usually referred to as a key. The
result of the process is encrypted information (in
cryptography, referred to as ciphertext).
In many
contexts, the word encryption also implicitly refers to
the reverse process, decryption (e.g. "software for
encryption" can typically also perform decryption), to
make the encrypted information readable again (i.e. to
make it unencrypted).
Provisions
in Part III of the 'Regulation of Investigatory Powers
Act 2000' provide law enforcement authorities with
the right to demand access to the original plaintext or
encryption keys, so as to prevent crime or assist in
ongoing investigations.
Whether passwords or encryption keys have been lost,
forgotten, or rendered unusable due to corruption -
BURTON DIGITAL have unique facilities to assist clients
in unlocking protected data to
assist in defence case preperations. |
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