Professional Legal Ethical and Social Issues

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PROFESSIONAL LEGAL ETHICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES

Lecture capture system provides institutions with useful learning resources and enables learners to get access to huge volume of content on demand. This system obviously is useful for distance learning, revision and re-use of materials. With advancement in IT sector day by day in all aspects of life, creating more opportunity and success in all fields. There come also various issues like Professional, legal, ethical and social related which one may not be aware which surround the use of IT. There are accredited professional bodies like BCS, IEEE which have raised awareness of social, legal and professional issues which one must be aware of. There needs to be regular introduction and update in relevant legislations like privacy, social implications etc.
LEGAL & SOCIAL ISSUES:
The legal issues that can be around the capture system are: copyright, student’s rights and lecturer rights. It includes detailed advice about the types of material that you should not record as well as showing how to check whether material can be used (University of Southampton 2013).
Copyright:
It will relevant where lectures are being are recorded. It is responsibility of each staff member no to infringe the intellectual property rights of third parties [(University of Southampton 2011). A variety of work are protected under copyright law including text film, sound recordings, scripts musical compositions photographs, blogs diagrams and still images[(University of Southampton 2011). The relevant legislation for copyright in UK is Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (CDPA) 1988 which provides certain exclusive rights to the copyright owners including the right to copy, communicate distribute, perform an...

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[3] legislation.gov.uk (1996). Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Retrieved from http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/11.
[4] Soas-University of London (2007). Data Protection Policy: Overview of the Data Protection Act 1998. Retrieved from http://www.soas.ac.uk/infocomp/dpa/policy/overview/.
[5] University of Bradford (2007). Introduction to Research and Research Methods. Retrieved from http://www.brad.ac.uk/management/media/management/els/Introduction-to-Research-and-Research-Methods.pdf.
[6] W3C.org (1999). Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/.
[7] Garret, R.o.n. & Lewis, J.e.n.n.i.f.i.e.r. (n.d.). Ethical issues in Software development. Retrieved from http://www.scribd.com/doc/10880744/Ethical-Issues-in-Software-Development

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