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The protection of intellectual property includes several categories of the so‑called intangible goods:

• works,

• data bases,

• patents, utility models and industrial designs, trademarks,

• maps and cartographic resources.

In Poland, actsactacts are a basic source of lawlawlaw. There are several actsactacts that regulate the protection of intellectual property.

Moral rightsmoral rightsMoral rights include the right to be acknowledged as the author of the workworkwork, to preserve its integrity and to control the way it is shared. They are unlimited in time and non‑transferable.

Economic rightseconomic rightsEconomic rights are rights to obtain benefits from the sales of the workworkwork and the conditions of its distribution. They usually expire after a defined period (usually 70 years after the author’s death).

The actactact on the protection of copyrightcopyrightcopyright also details the related rights, whose aim is to protect the interests of the entities taking part in the distribution of worksworkworks.

The copyrightcopyrightcopyright defines a range of legal permissions to use copyrightedcopyrightcopyrighted worksworkworks. They include: permitted public use, permitted private use, the right to quotequotequote or the right to reprint. A particular case of permitted public use is permitted educational use.

The majority of the content of websites is copyrightedcopyrightcopyrighted. The placement of a given material on the internet does not mean that it can be freely used because it is not a public property but the private property of its author. These materials are copyrightedcopyrightcopyrighted regardless of whether he or she has given his/her name, initials or a nickname. Moreover, the workworkwork does not need to be marked with the © sign. The conditions of using the content of somebody’s website are detailed in the licencelicencelicence which should be placed on the portal. If the website does not contain such terms of use, in order to make use of the portal content, one must contact the author of the workworkwork to negotiate the conditions of its use.

It is possible to use materials found on the internet free of charge without the permission of their author when, for example, we make use of the right to quotequotequote, included in the copyrightcopyrightcopyright act.

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Ilustracja przedstawia dwie postaci z komiksu, chłopca i dziewczynkę. Na górze znajduje się tytuł:The right to quote. W dymkach umieszczone są zdania wypowiadane przez dzieci: The cited paragraphs must be clearly marked as quotations. The quotations must be referenced – the author and source must be specified. The purpose of the quotation (e.g. explanatory, educational) should justify its use. The quotation should complement the work, but not replace it. The permitted extent of the quote is not specified, but remember that it cannot dominate the work.

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QUIZ Zdecyduj, które z 3 podanych zdań jest prawdziwe, a które fałszywe: 1. When you quote a part of a poem, you do not have to specify its author. 2. When you use images from the internet for the presentation during the IT lesson, you must specify their source. 3.You can write your essay using only quotations.

When you make use of the content of websites, remember that every piece of information, an image, a film or a text found on the Internet has been created by its author. The creators have the copyrights to their works. Anyone can become an author and would like his copyrights to be respected.

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