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Tom's Band On-line SCENARIOS Tom's Band On-line Whilst the Professors, Dr. Hodgson and Emily have been slaving away trying to get their projects off the ground, Tom has been happily strumming along with his band. In fact, the band now has its own dedicated website at www.atomictigers.co.uk which is getting up to thirty hits a day. Tom reckons that the reason for the website's popularity is because of the video clips which people can download – these clips show not just video recordings of Atomic Tigers' music, but also those of famous bands such as Oasis, The Killers and Coldplay (Tom is a huge fan of all these). Tom has also set up a facility whereby people can download images of famous album covers – the most popular one is Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" album. Tom has himself taken these clips and images from other websites. Being a regular internet surfer, Tom realised that he should have a statement on his website which tells people accessing the website what they can and cannot do with the materials he has placed on the site. He has put this together himself and called it 'Use Statement'. The main term of this Use Statement provides that Tom owns the IP in the video clips and the images and no person can use these images without his permission One of the other band members, Howard, is actually a music student at Lakeland. The band tends not to use his music as he writes classical, not rock, tunes. Tom has taken some of the classical music prepared by Howard and has engineered the website in such a way that the music plays when a person first accesses the website – Tom thinks this is an amusing way to lead into a rock music website. You've probably worked out by now that Tom has done quite a few things wrongly here, but can you list them out and say why what he has done will cause him problems? In particular, think about whether there are any clearance/ownership of IP issues. 33

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