Task 4 – Contracts, Legal and Ethical Obligations

Legal:

Copyright:
Copyright allows exclusive rights that grants the creator of an original piece of work rights for it's use and distribution, so if someone was to use there product for things such as advertising, then the creator of the product can do many things; sue them, get there ad, video took down off the internet. Copyright is a law that was put in place to stop people stealing your work or using it without permission.

Trademark:
Trademark is a word that represents a company that is chosen by that manufacturer/company and this is how people will know there company by, and doing this mans that, that word is registered with that company so if nobody else can use that trademark to represent there manufacturer.

Patent:
A patent is a government license that gives the holder exclusive rights to a process, new invention or design for a certain amount of time. Most of the time applications for patents are usually handled by a government agency. Basically what this means is, it is the official right to make or sell an invention for a number of years, if you do not patent your invention or whatever it is your making then other people can make profit off of it, maybe even all the profit.

Registered designs:
Registered designs basically protects the look and appearance of a product such as things like shape, lines, curves, colors, texture of the product, and etc. This is kind of similar to copyright, in other words it stops people from stealing your design, well at least the look of it.

Ethical:

Violence:
Video games have a huge affects on a gamers life, for e.g. it can completely change someones mood for the entire day. Some video games are known to make some people violent, not all people, well maybe not even half of the popularity of people that play video games, maybe 15% of people that play video games are violent, and there can be a number of reasons for this such as, people getting frustrated at a game because they can not complete a level or game, or maybe they have interacted with others whilst playing multiplayer on the game and someone has said something to offend them maybe a lot or just a little but because of this happening it can cause gamers to become violent.

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