It varies based on the type of property and extent of the infringement, but is often based on real damages: that is, you pay the rightsholder for the lost income. The law allows significantly higher fines, including prison sentences in extreme cases, and courts are often pressured by professional societies (such as RIAA) to demand larger payouts as an object-lesson, but the majority of disagreements are settled out of court for something at least tangentially related to real damages.
The Copyright Designs and Patents Act defines patents for computer hardware and software, and copyright on software.
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The 1988 Copyright Designs and Patents Act, as amended.
The current UK copyright law is the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended.
The Copyright Act 1965 is an outdated UK copyright law; the current law is the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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The Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act of 1988 is the current intellectual property law in the UK.
The current act (15 November 1988) was designed to restate and amend the 1949 Registered Designs Act and the 1939 Patents, Designs, Copyright and Trade Marks (Emergency) Act. It was amended in 1990 and 1991. There were major copyright acts in 1956 and 1911, and of course the first copyright act was in 1709.
Copyright law is a subset of Intellectual Property (IP) law.
Although the copyright act limits what can be used without a license, much of the act consists of exceptions to the exclusive rights it gives to content owners. How employees interact with the act varies significantly by the nature of the business.
There are hundreds of thousands of infringing websites. Sites allowing the unlicensed streaming or download of current movies are probably the most prominent.
The specific law varies from country to country. In the US, it is the Copyright Act 1976; in the UK, it is the Copyright, Design, and Patents Act 1988.