AIT and the Law in Australia

In downloading entertainment documents and other formal documents from the internet, it is important to make sure that we follow the Copyright laws of the place/country that we reside in. Australia is a country where internet is accessed by an extremely large population therefore illegal downloading of material and plagiarism have a higher chance of occuring.

I believe that people should only download music or movies and other documents that are clearly mentioned by the owner as available for downloads. The public can also access documents that are present in the public domain. According to Copyright, public domain is when a certain piece of work has expired and can be freely reproduced or used without the permission from the Copyright owner.

Otherwise I believe that people should first obtain permission from the owner of a certain document because according to Copyright, illegal downloading and plagiarism are a breach of intellectual property making it a punishable offence.

In schools there is also the mistrust that some students might try to earn someone's work through mischiveous ways therefore it is important that the work done by a student on a computer is protected from being stolen by someone else. At our school we have measures that are installed in order to protect students' information and privacy.

As a result every student at our school has a password therefore giving the students an opportunity to save all their documents and noone else can access them. Students have their own computer servers. Our school has McAfee virus software installed for the students to protect the computers from hackers.

At our school there are also group user policies that allow each student to have access to their own year group information. There is the use of ICT user Policy that students can get to use its advantages in their contact with the world of technology. For safety reasons students have to sign the ICT user policy in order to ensure protection. At our school there is also a proxy server which has security measures and information about what the students are permitted to do within the school network. As a result there are so many ways that we can protect our documents from plagiarism and I encourage people to always respect other people's privacy in their property to avoid disobeying the law.