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CopyrightcopyrightCopyright defines under what conditions you can use works created by other people. Poland is a member state of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and has ratified the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT), launched in 1996. The European Union has its own directive concerning the protection of copyright. In Poland, the LawlawLaw on Copyrights and Related Rights is in force, which was decreed on 4 February 1994 by the Polish Parliament. The copyright specifies a range of legal permissions to use copyrighted works. They include:

• permitted public use,

• permitted private use,

• the right to quote or the right to reprint.

A particular case of permitted public use is permitted educational use.

In accordance with the binding lawlawlaw, in Poland a free use of a work without permission is allowed for private use. Therefore downloading music files, books or films for this purpose is not penalised, as opposed to distributing them. Permitted private use is not applicable to computer software.

In the case of computer software, the scope of copyrightcopyrightcopyright is limited and permitted private use does not apply. Software providers usually cooperate with external organizations in order to limit piracypiracypiracy and protect their rights more easily. The world’s biggest organization of this type is Business Software Alliance, which also operates in Poland. It promotes and enforces the legitimate use of computer software provided by its members.

A person who infringes the copyright may face criminal and civil liability. Criminal liability is defined in the penal code. The aim of civil liability is to ensure compensationcompensationcompensation to people whose rights were impaired.

The public domain is part of creative works that can be used freely since the economic rightseconomic rightseconomic rights of their authors do not apply to them. Most often those rights have expired or the works were not subject to copyright because of the regulations or the type of licensing.

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Ilustracja przedstawia trzy loga związane z Creative Commons. Od lewej znajdują się kolejno: Copyright - litera C w kole, Creative Commons - dwie litery c w kole, Copyleft (GNUGPL) - lustrzane odbicie litery C w kole.

Copyleft is the type of copyrightcopyrightcopyright licensing that enables to freely share the copies and modified versions of a work on condition that they will be distributed later in the same way. The aim of this form of licensing is to create works that will be spread freely and guarantee that this process will never be stopped by anybody.

Creative Commons (CC) is an American non‑profit organization which supports the expansion of their own copyright licenses, known as Creative Commons licenses, based on which the author of a work shares his or her work under certain conditions.

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Find out what the four basic conditions of CC licenses refer to.

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Ilustracja pomocnicza do zadania. Cztery loga związane z Creative Commons: postać stojącego człowieka w kole, przekreślony znak dolara w kole, znak równości w kole, strzałka półokrągła zwrócona w lewo w kole.

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• attribution (permission to use a work provided that its author is credited),

• non‑commercial use,

• no derivative works,

• share‑alike – a work may be distributed only under an identical licenselicenselicense.

A software license is a contract between the producer or distributor of software and a user which specifies the conditions of using the programme. The license usually imposes limitations on the user, of which the most common are the number of computers on which the software may be installed and the number of end‑users of the programme.

If you want to use online resources in accordance with copyrightcopyrightcopyright, you must learn the principles of using the works that are shared on the internet. You can access freely the materials that are:

• shared in the so called public domainpublic domainpublic domain,

• intended for permitted private use,

• distributed under a licenselicenselicense.

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