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INFORMATION AND COMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY GYAMFI SERIES

 Sound recording.
 Audio and visual work such as music and video films.

REASON FOR COPYRIGHT PROTECTION
 To provide evidence of ownership.
 To protect the works of people such as music and books.
 To encourage people to come out of new invention or idea.
 To prevent piracy. Piracy is the stealing or unauthorized copying and distribution of product.
 To maintain a record of work for future reference.

Examples of Copyright Laws in Ghana
1. Playing songs without compensation to the owner. This normally happens on the
broadcasting industries.
2. Hiring movies (films) to other people.
3. Burning copyright songs/films for other people.
4. Patent, a right granted by the government giving the owner the exclusive right to produce,
sell, lease or otherwise benefit from an invention.

Copyright infringement occurs when someone breaks the copyright law. OR it occurs when a person
copies and sells products of other without the owner’s permission.
Effect of Breaking Copyright law
1. Fines 2. Imprisonment 3. The product/items can be seized by the government 4. The
person can be ordered by the court of law to stop producing the product.
NOTE:
Plagiarism: it is the process of taking another person’s work, ideas, or words, and using them as if they
were your own without acknowledging the rightful owner or stating that this is where it came from.
Trademark: a name, symbol or designs that belongs to a particular company and is used on its products.

FORMATTING TEXT IN WORD PROCESSING DOCUMENT
Formatting refers to changing the appearance or position of text in a document such as font type, font
type, font colour, italics and under line to appear nice or presentable as one desire. In other words
formatting simple refers to changing the appearance or position of text in a document.
 Font or font type; it refers to appearance of text in the document.
 Font size; it is used change the size of the character or text.
 Alignment is the act or process of changing the position of a text to do left, right, center or justify
on the screen.
HOW TO BOLD A TEXT (Ctrl+B)
 Highlight the text or word you want to bold.
 Right click on the highlighted word or text.
 Click on the Bold icon on the formatting toolbar.
 Click inside the page to remove the highlight.
HOW TO APPLY UNDERLINE (Ctrl+U)
 Highlight the text.
 Click on underline icon (U) on the formatting toolbar.
 Click inside the page to remove the highlight.

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