Explicit Content.

Explicit content means something that is usually of a sexual or inappropriate nature that may only be viewed by people over the ages of 18. These days things such as films and music have labels on their CD & DVD covers that state whether the content within the material is classed as inappropriate or not.

This is the PAL sticker that goes on CD covers of music.

Now with film there are many labels of ratings for different films. These rating signs tell the audience what is classed as appropriate for different ages. In the United Kingdom the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) decides on this.

On websites it is different. Not all websites having warning banners or stickers on them or accounts that protect others from being exposed to their content, because the internet is open to everyone, it is sometimes hard to protect others because nearly anyone can post anything on it these days.
If children want to go on the internet then there are things such as parental locks that can help prevent them from going on anything inappropriate.


-Rebecca Hickey

Safeguarding.

Safeguarding is used to protect people on the internet, mostly children of all ages and those less able of being aware of danger. Safeguarding stops harmful and explicit content from reaching people. It is important that people are protected on the internet because it is very easy for someone to come across something that may be classed as inappropriate or vulgar.
For example, some YouTube videos have red flags on their videos that show that the content within one of their videos may not be appropriate for someone under the age of 18. If someone wants to view that video, they have to have an account that says that they're or over the age of 18. This stops young children from accidentally clicking on something that they shouldn't looking at.

-Rebecca Hickey

Sensitivity to groups of society.

When you're posting things on the internet, you have to have to be careful. Some things can be classed as offensive or explicit content for others. If you're posting stuff that is explicit or may be offensive, then you have to state somewhere in your post a warning that tells viewers what it entails.

There isn't really a lot to say about sensitivity to groups of society because it's just basic manners and common-sense.

-Rebecca Hickey

Permissions.

Before you use somebody's work, you must get permission. For example, you're a making a film trailer and you want to use a song by a band, you cannot just download the song and use it because legal action may be taken against you. You have to get in contact with the band somehow to gain permission to use the material that you want. Th easiest way to do this would be find the band's email address on their website (if they have one) or through the record company that represents them. Once you have permission, you can do what you like with what you have unless it's to slate the band, which in that case legal action definitely will be taken out against you.
Permissions are't just for music, they're for anything that is under the copyright law whether it be literary, musical, technological... etc, they help copyright holders gain the credit that they deserve for their work.

-Rebecca Hickey

Creating a picture Gallery in Dreamweaver CS6.

As part of our web-design project in class, we have to show that we can make something that can be used on a website or an actual website. Seeing as I have already created a design for a website that could work, I decided to make an image Gallery which would be the main feature on my website. I used a tutorial provided by the Adobe website to help me do this.

http://www.adobe.com/inspire/2012/10/ten-steps-dreamweaver-cs6.html

Following this tutorial, I was able to make a gallery using my own images that looked like this.

The bit of the tutorial that confused me a little was step 8 where you had to make a navigation bar. Click to point file is a feature in dreamweaver and I didn't know what it meant at first, but when I re-read the tutorial I knew what it was.

This is how I created my navigation bar for my image gallery.

I went to my gallery template page where all of my images where. I clicked on my first image.

After I had clicked on my image, I found the point to click icon next to link field box in properties.

The next thing that I had to do was actually use the point to click tool.

What this did was create a hyperlink between the gallery pages.
I repeated this step for all of my images.

-Rebecca Hickey

Patents.

Patents protect new inventions and covers how they work, what they do, what they're made of and how they are made. It gives the owner of the invention the right to take legal action against others making, using and distributing their invention without permission. When suing someone that has obtained the invention illegally the owner has to have expert legal advice because court cases with this kind of thing is really tricky. The patent owner needs to be able to pay for this legal advice themselves, and if they win their court battle, it may already be paid for them.

To get a legal patent the invention needs to be:

- New
- Be surprising. ( not obvious to someone with experience and knowledge in that subject area )
- Has to be capable of being used or made in a type of industry

The invention cannot be:

- A method, theory, scientific or mathematical discovery
- Dramatic, Literary, artistic or musical
- Business, game, mental act
- Presentation or Computer Program
- Method of Medial Treatment or diagnosis
- Against public policy or morality
- Of the animal or plant variety


-Rebecca Hickey

Trade Secrets.

A trade secret can be any one of these examples: a formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern or a complication of information. They are owned by business' that obtain an economic advantage over their consumers or competitors.
In England, a Trade Secret is usually referred to as "Confidential Information", but in America they're called "Classified Information", which is mainly used to describe something that is protected by the U.S government.
To protect a Trade Secret from competitors, business' place special procedures for handling this whether it be technical or via security measures, this includes NDA's, non-compete clauses and employees signing agreements.
If there is a violation or a breach in an agreement from an employee then there would most likely be a very heavy financial penalty carried out and an injunction to make sure that the trade secret is still under protection. Trying to prove that a former employee has breached their agreement can be extremely difficult and the holder of the trade secret may have to agree to another agreement.
The law of protection on a Trade Secret doesn't expire like a patent would, which means that they're protected for much longer. Usually secret formulae are protected by restricting vital information to 1 or 2 trusted people.
To discover a trade secret, some companies go to extreme measures to try and obtain that information by going through lawful methods such as reverse engineering or poaching other companies' employees. The unlawful methods that they go through are things like industrial espionage which is illegal in its own right under the governing laws, "If a trade secret is improper the secret is deemed misappropriated". If a secret is acquired through industrial espionage, then that person will be a subject of legal liability for obtaining it improperly.

-Rebecca Hickey