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Hyperlinks:
On this level:
Meeting deadlines
Review work
Accuracy checks
Backup copies
Manage files
Saving files
Confidentiality
Copyright
Health and Safety
The Law
On the level below:
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Respect copyright
 It is illegal to copy a file
without permission from the original owner of the file.
This may include downloading text, images, video or sound from the
Internet and using them without permission. It can also include using software
without a license – either making pirate copies of software bought by other
users or, for example, using software on a network that is licensed for use on a
stand-alone computer.
Some guidance about what can
and can't be used from websites:
 | These days, almost all things are copyrighted
the moment they are written, and no copyright notice is required.
| Copyright is still violated whether you charge
money or not, only damages are affected by that.
| Postings to the net are not granted to the
public domain, and don't grant you any permission to do further copying
except perhaps the sort of copying the poster might have
expected in the ordinary flow of the net.
| Fair use is a complex doctrine meant to allow
certain valuable social purposes. Ask yourself why you are republishing what
you are posting and why you couldn't have just rewritten it in your own
words.
| Copyright is not lost because you don't defend
it; that's a concept from trademark law. The ownership of names is also from
trademark law, so don't say somebody has a name copyrighted.
| Fan fiction and other work derived from
copyrighted works is a copyright violation.
| Copyright law is mostly civil law where the
special rights of criminal defendants you hear so much about don't apply.
Watch out, however, as new laws are moving copyright violation into the
criminal realm.
| Don't rationalise that you are helping the
copyright holder; often it's not that hard to ask permission.
| Posting E-mail is technically a violation, but
revealing facts from E-mail you got isn't, and for almost all typical
E-mail, nobody could wring any damages from you for posting it. The law
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