L4 Media Assets Legislation

A media asset that is sourced is one that is taken from another place. What place could that be?

• On-line libraries

• Internal Gallery/Library of Game Development Environment

• Private or Public Repository

• Purchased files from the person who own the copyrights for it

What does it mean that media asset has been copyrighted?

• It means you have rights to copy this asset

• It means you cannot acquire and use that media without permission from person who owns its copyrights

• Copyrighted media asset is an intellectual property of its creator

• It means you can edit the original media asset to adapt it to your own taste

Which one is NOT a website which provides copyright free assets:

• freesound.org

• opengameart.org

• gameart2d.com

• youtube.com

The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 protects the original creators by making it a crime for anyone to download and share their work without first:

• paying for it to acquire the copyright by purchasing the licence

• asking permission to use the acquired work its creator/owner of copyrights

• Acknowledging the author of the original work/idea

• Referencing the source from where the work has been downloaded from

For how long the Copyright, Patterns and Designs Act last?

• 70 years

• 140 years

• 30 years

• 99 years

In gaming, which one is NOT covered by copyrights?

• Text assets

• Graphic assets

• Icons for level of difficulty and stats

• The game idea

People breach copyright for several reasons including pricing, unavailability, anonymity and usefulness of stolen media assets. What is meant by word anonymity as reason for breaching the copyright act?

• It is hard to trace people that breach the law

• The material can be used in another way by you

• It is to expensive to purchase the original version

• The original work/media assets is unavailable on the market

In what year was the Digital Economy Act created?

• 2020

• 2010

• 2000

• 1999

What type of material the Digital Economy Act covers?

• online

• hard copied

• digital

• printed

The Digital Economy Act covers many areas but relates to copyright by making it harder to access websites providing copyright material and to enforce increased penalties for copyright infringement.

• TRUE

• FALSE