Legal, Ethical and Environmental impacts of Technology

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Consumer Contact Regulations state that:

Your right to cancel an order for goods made at a distance starts when you receive the goods and lasts for 14 days

Your right to cancel a service made at a distance starts the moment you enter into the contract and lasts 14 days

If you want to download digital content within the 14-day cancellation period, you must agree to waive your cancellation rights

Companies are not allowed to charge you for items they put in your online shopping basket or that you have bought as a result of a pre-ticked box

Copyright Designs and Patents act

Creative Commons licensing

Giving a copy to a friend

Making a copy and then selling it

Using the software on a network (unless the licence you signed allows it. For example, you may be allowed to install an app on 3 devices within a family)

Renting the software without the permission of the copyright holder

The six main CC licenses are comprised of various combinations of its four conditions:

Attribution (BY): The work can be copied, modified, distributed, displayed, and performed, but the copyright owner must be given credit

Non-commercial (NC): The work can be copied, modified, distributed, displayed, and performed, but no profit can be made from it

No derivative works (ND): The work can be copied, distributed, displayed, and performed, but cannot be modified

Share-alike (SA): The work can be modified and distributed, but derivative works must be covered by an identical licence to the original