14. Design, performance and database rights Note-taking

Make one-page Notes or a Mind Map of Text 2. Be ready to talk in front of the class using your notes.

15. Conditionals Language use

When we speculate about past events and possibilities that were never fulfilled, we say what might have happened if the events had developed differently. As you can see, we use Perfect tense forms to do that. Look back at the exercise 'Designs' and write five sentences speculating about unfulfilled possibilities. (If necessary, revise the relevant section in your grammar book.) Example:

If the case hadn’t come under the ‘must-fit’ exclusion, the product would have merited legal protection.

16. Punctuation

Below are two extracts from a newspaper article “Why we must cut the costly Crown copyright’by Heather Brooke ( The Times, 27/9/2005). It compares the situation with government copyright in the UK and the USA, much to the credit of the US. The article is part of growing campaign in the UK to abolish restrictive copyrights on public sector information.

Punctuate the texts, paying special attention to capitalisation of words. If in doubt, consult the Punctuation Rules in Appendix 9. Write down how this article should be cited in a Bibliography.

A

1 in the uk excessive intellectual property rights prevent access to and dissemination of vast areas of knowledge says matt wootton of the green party. 2 our policy seeks to abolish crown and other types of restrictive copyright that restricts most material originated by ministers and civil servants which has been paid for by the uk taxpayer.

3 lawyers too are hit hard as they pay substantial fees to access consolidated law or governmental reports. 4 in the us this is information that would be provided free or at little cost federal law states any text produced by government is free from copyright and passes immediately into the public domain. 5 unoriginal compilations of fact public or private may not be owned says professor james boyle of duke law school who has studied copyright regimes in the us and europe. 6 confounding expectation boyle says the us government exercises information socialism whereas the uk and europe are out for maximum short term profit at the expense of social welfare and long term economic growth even the eu directive on the re use of public sector information enacted in july 2005 presumes that government data be sold for profit.

B

1 research carried out in 2000 by pira international for the european commission found that the us information industry was five times larger than its european counterpart even though the two economies were almost equal in size. 2 the main difference the commission stated was the much more liberal rules on re use of federal information in the usa.

3 the office of public sector information formerly known as her majesty s stationery office has created a click use licence for some types of public information though this extends only to current legislation some parliamentary documents and government press releases. 4 building this system and spreading it out across government is very much part of the government s policy to encourage the re use of information said a cabinet office spokesman. 5 yet the most useful types of public sector information are excluded from click use licences and carry heavy fees land registration held by the land registry mapping ordnance survey weather meteorological office and sea charts uk hydrographic office.