Week 10 Poll Analysis

During the 10th week, we have created a poll, with the question : At the federal level, service mark infringement is governed by....? . There are a total of 6 votes this week. 4 voters voted for the answer 'LANHAM Trademark Act of 1946' and the remaining 2 voters voted for the answer 'Intellectual Property Statues'. The correct answer for this week's poll is the first answer, which is the 'LANHAM Trademark Act of 1946'.

Below shows the pie chart of the poll's results.

Below shows a screenshot of how the actual poll looks like.

Harassment

Nowadays in the internet there are more and more people have forgotten about the existence of Legal Issues. Actually this doesn't happen only in the internet but in the real world. People have getting more and more selfish and try to find all kinds of method to pursue the target without thinking about the method that they use is it legal or not. This makes people who takes in charge of these issues getting more and more headache. This is not what they want to happen but it happens naturally.

There are all sorts of method that they can use to threaten people all around the world such as email, social networking sites, forums, links, websites and etc. Email is a communication tools that leads to romances and friendship development across the world. Ping flood, packets-with-payload or distributed DOS attacks have the potential to shut down a sites of any size, at inconvenience to any number of users. Nevertheless, the bumbling attempts to identify the source of the "love bug" email virus also demonstrates that damage can cross national boundaries.

Week 9 Poll Analysis

The above shows the result of the week 9 poll analysis. The question was categorize as easier than the poll the week before. This week the question is "Which of the following is not being categorize under Legal Issues?" There are 8 people who voted this poll. There are 3 choices that I give them such as Trademark, Retrieval, and Copyright. There are total of 9 votes this week.

4 people who do chose Copyright, 3 people taking Retrieval as their answer while 2 people choosing Trademark. The correct answer this week is RETRIEVAL because it is not a category of Legal Issues.

Service Mark In U.S.A (Part 2)

The rights to a service mark may be acquired in two ways. First, a business can register the mark with the government. Most service marks are eligible for registration with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Several state governments have separate registration requirements. Once a service mark has been registered, the law typically affords protection to the first mark filed with the government. Second, a business may acquire rights to a service mark through public use. However, a mark must be held out to the public regularly and continuously before it will receive legal protection. Sporadic or irregular use of a service mark will not insulate it from infringement.

To receive protection, a service mark must also be unique, unusual, or distinctive. Common, ordinary, and generic marks rarely qualify for protection.

Once a business has established a vested right in a service mark, the law forbids other businesses from advertising their services with deceptively similar marks. Service mark infringement occurs when a particular mark is easily confused with other marks already established in the same trade and geographic market. Greater latitude is given when businesses that share similar marks are in unrelated fields or offer services in different consumer markets. 

Do you think there is such a law protecting the service marks in Malaysia? Feel free to comment!

Reference

The Gale Group, 2008, Service Mark, [Online], 3rd of October 2011, 

       URL : http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Service+Mark 

Week 8 Poll Analysis

In the week 8 poll, we've asked our reader a quiz titled "Copyright infringement occur when linking to an image on another person's website". There are total of 7 people voted for the question. There are total of 2 votes for true and 5 votes for false. The correct answer is false.

Service Mark In U.S.A

What is a Service Mark? 


Service Mark is a trademark that is used in connection with services.


Businesses or companies uses service mark to identify their services and distinguish them from other services provided by different companies of the same field. Service marks normally consist of letters, words, symbols, and other devices that helps inform customers about the origin of the particular service. Trademarks, by contrast, are used to distinguish different competing products instead of services. For example, Fed-Ex is a service mark of a company which provides delivery services. And its competitor, DHL, which is also another delivery company. 


In the U.S, the service marks are regulated by the law of Unfair Competition. At the federal level, service mark infringement is governed by the LANHAM Trademark Act of 1946. At the state level, service mark infringement is governed by analogous Intellectual Property statutes.
In some states, the service mark infringement may give rise to a Cause of Action under the Common Law. This is because service marks are a particular type of trademark, the substantive and procedural rules governs both types if marks which are technically similar to each other. 


Any examples of service marks that can be found in Malaysia?  Please do feel free to comment in the comment box below. =)

Reference

The Gale Group, 2008, Service Mark, [Online], 3rd of October 2011, 

       URL : http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Service+Mark

Notices and Disclaimers Page

Due to the improvement of Internet in this 20th century, Notices and disclaimers page are really important for the users to know the new arrival news that is just being known by the newspaper or news in the television. Internet somehow might be faster that any other path to know the news nowadays due to the website of various of writer for the news that most probably written in the computer that can be uploaded into the internet.

Blog or website should include various notices and disclaimers page which sets out applicable copyright and trade-mark notices, disclaimers and other terms regarding use. For instance, visitors should be advised that the information contained on the site should not be relied upon as legal, business or tax advice and that the operator is not providing any warranty regarding the reliability of the content. The copyright notice may need to be set out in a particular manner to ensure protection under international copyright conventions.

The link to the notices and disclaimers page should be sufficiently descriptive in order to provide visitors to the Web site with adequate notice of its presence. For instance, it is advisable to utilize a label such as "legal terms" or "legal notices".

Due to the nature of the Web, a visitor to a Web site may not necessarily go through the main or home page in order to access a page on a particular site. They may end up on a particular page on a site from a link to that page on a third party’s site or as a result of a search conducted using one of the popular search engines on the Internet. Any notice placed only on the home page of a Web site will not be seen by such visitors. It is therefore critical to place important notices, or links to such notices, on practically each page on the Web site in order to ensure that regardless of the path chosen, each visitor will be given notice of such material.

Certain types of content placed on a Web site should be accompanied by additional and more prominent notices or disclaimers. Examples include downloadable software programs, data that may be relied upon (for instance, stock market or interest rate information) or tools (for instance, financial calculators). The owner of a Web site containing such content may wish to set out the notices and disclaimers in an on-line contract, which is discussed further below.

What do you think about the importance of the notices and disclaimers page to the blog and website? Drop down your comment if there is any information that you do not know about it or can share your opinion in the comment so that we can improve our knowledge about notices and disclaimers page.

Recent Legal Issues: Wikileaks to End Publishing Classified Files

According to BBC, Wikileaks has stop publishing classified files to ensure the survival of the company. The Announcement was due to a group who called a blockage by the US-based finance company.

The few financial companies who imposed the financial blockage are Visa, Western Union, Mastercard, and Bank of America.

"The blockage caused 95% damage of our revenue", said Julian Assange. He said that Wikileaks need to put in alot of violent fundraise in order to fight againts the blockage.

In addition, he said Wikileaks were taking actions for blockage againts firms in the Iceland, UK, Denmark, Australia, and United States, and launching an anti-trust complaint with the European Commision.

Week Seven Poll Analysis

In the week seven poll, we have asked our readers how long does a registered Trademark will last in Malaysia before renewal is needed. There are a total of 13 people participated in week seven's poll. And only 5 out of 13 got the answer correct, which is "10 years". This is the most voted voted answer comparing to other answers. The second most voted answer is "5 years". There are only 3 people voted for this answer. As for "15 years" & "20 years", there are only two votes, respectively. Last but not least, the last answer which is "100 years" only has 1 vote. The correct answer is "10 years", which accounts for most of the votes. 

Below shows the actual poll widget from our blog : 

Below shows the pie chart of this week's poll analysis : 

Create a Logo, Change our Motto! Contest Winner Announcement!

Finally! The Create a Logo, Change our Motto! Contest is now over! Sorry for the delayed announcement as our team is busy with some other assignments. It is our pleasure to announce our winner of our contest here. The winner of our first prize is Ms.Keng Xin Dee! With the motto : "Surfing The Legal Way" and her artwork below :

As for the first runner-up, the winner is Thanaraj Thiagarajen! Thanaraj won the first-runner with his motto : "Browse The Web Legally" and his artwork below : 

                                     

We, Legalnet@CSC1122 would like to take this opportunity to thank both of our contestants to take their time to join this contest, and we would also like to congratulate them. Congratulations!!

Domain Name Issues

In the cyber world, Domain name is really important for people to recognize or remember your name. This is because remembering or recognizing the website will make other people to read, participate, and joining your website frequently. Although the content is the main success of the website but if the domain name is hard to remember, you will make people hard to visit back. So to make people to remember your domain name, a single word domain name or a short domain name will easily help you.
Typosquatting - where a person registers a domain name similar to a real domain name, but with a typo, in hopes that web surfers reach it by accident. These sites are usually filled with paid advertising links that generate revenue for the typosquatter, not to mention the web surfer has been tricked into believing he is on the correct site. This diverts traffic away from the intended site. Sometimes they are routed to a competitors site or a pornographic site.

Cybersquatting - is when someone registers a domain name, in bad faith, violating the rights of the trademark owner. They usually intend to extort payment from the trademark owner, and they keep the names to sell later to the highest bidder.

Pagejacking is when the offender copies part of an existing website, and then puts it up on a different website to make it look like the original. Pagejacking is used in phishing schemes, where the fake page gathers account numbers, passwords, and personal information from the unsuspecting user.

The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) is a cost-effective and faster alternative to a lawsuit, when there is a domain name dispute that needs to be resolved. This was set up by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the group responsible for domain name registration.

Copyright Issues In the Music Industry (Safeguarding)

Copyright items in the music industry starts when it is written down or recorded. Composer own the copyright item unless they appoint them to another person by selling them to publishing company, assigning them by licensing it, or giving it away. However, it is different when proving ownership. There are 3 ways on how to safeguard copyrighted material to avoid dispute over "originality".

1. Proving authorship
2. Proving ownership
3. Enforcement

Proving Authorship

A creator has to prove authorship when forming a copyright. There are few ways to prove authorship.

Witness Testimony

If someone saw you creating a work. They can help you to be a witness testimony to prove authorship.

Registering Work

A new work should be registered. Look for a publisher to assist you in registering copyright items.

Deposit With An Archive Repository

A copies should be placed in archive repository. Such as :-

• The British Library in London
• Stationers Hall Registry (UK), Stationers Hall, Ave Maria Lane, Ludgate Hill, London, EC4M 7DD Tel (0171) 248 2934
• www.songprotector.com (An online composition copyright registration service.

Deposit With A Bank or Solicitor

Author and composers often choose to deposit copy of their work with a solicitor or bank and keep a dated receipt, in a recorded form.

Send a Copy To Yourself Recorded or Registered Delivery

Send yourself a copy of your work (in manuscript, recording etc) in a sealed packaging through the national post which will bear a franking mark on the packaging.

Proving Ownership

Copyright can be sold or appointed to a company, current copyright owner might not be the author. To prove ownership, the owner can perform the following :-

Display Copyright

Embedded Copyright Information

The reason why you need to embed copyright information into media file

• To prove the file is copyrighted
• To allow file usage to be tracked
• To identified copyright holder
• To contact the copyright holder if needed

What Information Should be Embedded?

• © Universally accepted copyright symbol
• Date (year)
• authors name and email address

Embedding Copyright Information Into Web Pages

The following are two meta tags which are useful in the head tag of your web pages

Embedding Copyrighted Information Into Media Files

Images

Photoshop Use File>File Info menu to enter copyright details.

Digital Watermarking Image Files

Digimarc digital watermark system Photoshop uses a filter to embed the watermark into your file. This will allowed your file to be able to tracked on the internet.

Enforcing Copyright

Hire a Copyright Lawyer

Hire a copyright lawyer to protect your copyright if you have no worries about money.

Use the Musicians Union

Musicians Union provides free legal assist and advice if you are a part of the Union.

Assign Your Copyrights to a publisher

Publishing company might help you in protecting your copyright. But normally it takes a few agreements such as claiming royalties fees. Nonetheless this will further protect your copyright in any way.

How To Register Your Own Domain Name

Registering a domain name in Malaysia will allow you to build a business, nonprofit or personal website related to the country. You will need to find a registrar licensed to sell .MY Malaysian domain names. Although you don't need to actually be in Malaysia when you register your domain name, you will need an internationally accepted credit card such as a Visa or Mastercard. You will also need a company that is registered in Malaysia, as well as a physical office along with a valid address and phone number.




Instructions


1
Find a registrar that can sell .MY domain names. A few you can consider using are 101Domain, Marcaria, and Webhosting.com.my (see references below).


2
Navigate to one of the above sites. Enter the domain name you wish to register into the search box and click "Search." Wait about 30 seconds to find out if it is available. If it is, you can go ahead and pay for it. If it is not, you'll need to search for another name.


3
Use your credit card, Google Checkout or Paypal to pay for your new domain. As of 2010, a Malaysian domain name costs $60 to $85 per year.

Week Six Poll Analysis

This is the result for the poll that is created.

The above shows the result of the poll that is created last week. The result shows that there is 3 person voting ™. ™ is actually the symbol of not registered trademark. This is actually not the correct answer that is being answered by the voter. As for ®, this is the correct answer. The authorities uses ® as the symbol to show that they are registered trademark company. ® is actually stands for REGISTERED.

Week 5 Poll Analysis

We have asked our blog reader "What do you think about our blog?" in this week poll. So here is the result of the poll. There are total of 10 people who contributed to the poll.

Majority of the voters voted "A good blog with useful information" with 70% votes. Another 30% votes goes to "An awesome blog with up to date information. Surprisingly, no one voted for "A normal blog with average standard information" and "Blog need to be improve.

Conclusion, we are quite delighted to see that most of the voters think that our blog provides good information regarding about legal and illegal issues in the internet. Thus we will maintain the effort and standard of our blog plus improving it too. Feel free to leave comment to help us in improving our blog :).

Contest

We really hope so more contestant can participate in this competition because we have already prepared some prizes that is really interesting for the participants. Such as Microsoft wireless mouse with nano transceiver which is worth RM 129 which is really benefit the participant... We have also mystery gift which worth RM 50 for the 2nd place who is the 1st runner up. We have also prepared the form in our blog so if you are interested you can fill the form and send it into any of our email. Your participation will definitely help you win prizes... So what to wait? Come and participate.

You have another 1 more week to create the logo and send it to our email.

How To Register Your Own Trademark?

Previously, i have explained about the types of trademark, and the function of trademarks. Now, i am going to talk about on how to get your own trademark registered in Malaysia.


Trademarks are the logos, pictures, phrases of words and so on carries the identity of the company or a certain corporation. In Malaysia, once registered, the trademarks lasts for ten years, which is similar to USA. After ten years, the registered trademark must be renewed. Once trademarked, that company or corporation owns and has the rights of the words, phrases, images or logos that was registered as a trademark. Although a Malaysian trademark is protected in Malaysia, it does not cross over to other countries. For example, the brand "Lotte" is a register trademark in Korea and Japan. However, although it is both registered in Korea and Japan, a different company may register for the same trademark in other countries.


How to register your own trademark?

Instructions

1. • 1
     Fill out the TM05 Malaysian trademark application. Look for the application at the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia website (see Resources). Fill out fields such as a list of the goods and services your company offers and a graphical representation of the proposed trademark. Fill out, date and sign the Statutory Declaration at the end of the TM05 application.
   • 2
     Print out five separate copies of your completed TM05 application including the Statutory Declaration. All five copies must be sent to the trademark office.
   • 3
     Fill out form 49 to list the specifics of your company. Add information on all of the directors, managers and secretaries working under your company. List information such as their full name, national race, residential address and identity card or passport number.
   • 4
     Write out a check or money order for RM 250.00 payable to "Perbadanan Harta Intelek Malaysia."
   • 5
     Send in your application forms and application fee to the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia. Mail everything to the address listed below:

     Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia

     32nd Floor, Menara Dayabumi

     Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin

     50623 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

So, how long do you think the registered trademark will last in other countries? Should it be standardized? Or should it differ by country? Please feel free to comment!


References :
How to Register a Trademark in Malaysia. [Online] 13 October 2011
           URL: http://www.ehow.com/how_6668826_register-trademark-malaysia.html

Create a Logo, Change our Motto! Contest

Welcome to our blog! First and foremost we would like to thank you for your undying support! And also, we would like to thank you for participating in our polls.

It is a pleasure for us to announce that we will organizing a contest. A contest to create a logo and a motto suitable for our blog.

Terms & Conditions

1) Participants must be a MALAYSIAN.

2) Participants must be a follower of this blog and LIKE the Facebook page of this blog.

3) To participate this contest, participants must first COPY & PASTE the link of this blog into their Facebook page.

4) Must provide proof (screenshots) of your Facebook Wall with the Wall Post of this blog's link.

5) If Postage service are needed for delivering the prizes, the cost of the Postage service must be paid by the participants.

6) The dimension of the "Logo" must be a minimum of 612 x 612, and in JPEG format.

7) The "Logo" must be a genuine work of the participant. If the "Logo" is the work of others, or copied from the internet, the participant is automatically disqualified.

8) Any image/photo editing software(s) are allowed to be used in this contest.

9) Hand-drawn logos are not accepted.

10) The "Motto" must not be more than 8 words. (Not 8 Alphabets)

11) Each participant can only take part once.

12) E-mail your contest form, screen shots, artwork & motto to workforpie001@gmail.com.
13) Any Contest Forms submitted after 23rd of October will not be entertained in any way.

To download the contest form, click here.
To start download, click "File" at the top left corner, and select "Download As".
Participants are required to fill in the form, and email to workforpie001@gmail.com with your screen shots, artwork & motto.

Prize

First Prize -----> Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse with Nano Transceiver worth of RM 129 x1

Second Prize---> Mystery Gift worth of RM 50 x 1

Third Prize ----> Domino's Express Card (Buy 1 free 1) worth of RM 50 x 1

This contest is organized by Legal-net@CSC1122 (c), Legal-net@CSC1122 reserves the rights to amend the Terms and Conditions of this contest.

For more details, please visit our Facebook fan page or Twitter account or drop us an email.

Lee Kok Weng kokweng1122@gmail.com

Fish Wong fishwong8@gmail.com

Kevin Chiw kevinchiw@gmail.com

Domain Name

Domain names are very important nowadays due to people that use internet are increasing randomly. Domain name have to be easy to remember to make people continuously read or follow the website. Domain names have to be also special and not being copied. This is to ensure people would not join a fake website or blog that will affect the users time of finding or the emotion of the user when they are finding the information.

Selecting a Domain Name is really important. Domain names can be divided into 2 levels which is first and second level. domain name such as bitlaw.com, the ".com" portion is considered the first or top level domain name, and the "bitlaw" is considered a second level domain name. Some of the top level domain such as .com, .org, .net, .gov, .edu, .post and others. These top level domain name are administrated by InterNIC. To make sure that your domain name is not taken or available or not, you can always use WhoIs search to make sure it is not taken. This will also ensure that the domain name that is chosen did not infringe on another party's trademark.

So, how many types of Domain Names are there? Care to list them out?  Please leave a comment!

Reference: http://www.bitlaw.com/internet/webpage.html [online] last contribution 2010 by Daniel A.tysver.

Week Four Poll Analysis

In this week's poll, we have asked the readers of our blog 'How often do they visit our blog'. There are only a total of 9 voters who participated this week's poll. There are three options with the least voters, that is "Everyday", "More than once a week", and "More than once in a day". All three of these options only consist of 1 vote. For the option of "Once a month", there are two voters voted for this option. Last but no least, the last option, "Once a week" has the most votes, a total of four votes.

Here is the pie chart of the poll analysis :

Here is a screen shot of the week four poll :

Week Three Poll Analysis

This week there is not much people giving their vote most probably due to the assignment deadline weeks so this week there is only 5 people voting. This week question was what license that Microsoft Office is using? Many people was wondering what are some of the legal issues that is given as multiple choice question.

There are 3 people choosing copyright license and 2 people choosing copyleft license. Which means there is no people choosing SasS license and also Trial software license. This means, people are always confused between copyright and copyleft license. In my opinion, people chose copyright license is because they didn't hear before about copyleft license and also does not know the existence of it. In the other way, people who chooses copyleft license are people who understand things clearly about licensing. This is my part of view why people choose those answer than other answers.

Linking and Framing

What is linking and framing?

Linking

Linking is a method of connect a website to another in a form of link (AKA Hyperlink), when internet user clicked into a specially coded work. It will take them into another web page. A link can take the user to another page within the same site, which called as "internal link", or to another site altogether ("an external link").

Links and the law

Linking is too easy in the internet that business users feels that when legal restriction is take place it will violate the right to travel and freedom speaking in the internet. Deep linking ( a link that bypass the home page) is believe to be not copyrighted infringement. However it is wise to ask for permission first before deep linking because some website asserted rights against deep linkers under copyright and trademark law principles.

In 2002, a Danish court prevented a website from deep linking to newspaper site. In 2003, Germany weighed in the issue when its federal court ruled deep linking was not violating German copyright law. Subsequently, the Indian and Danish court both separately ruled against practice of deep linking in 2006. (http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter6/6-c.html, 2006)

Framing

Framing is another way of connecting to another website. It is quite similar to linking except it imports the original page and displayed it in a special frame. Framing another website might lead to legal issues involve like copyright and trademark. By framing another website, the framing website might think that it being framed endorses or is related to the offending website.

An online news website was sued because it framed the content of other major media websites such as USA Today, CNN and Time. The lawsuit settled and the offending website removed the framed content. (http://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/business-operations/small-business-internet/internet-linking.html)

Credit to:

FindLaw, Website Linking, Framing, and Inlining, [Online], Retrieved 14th October 2011

URL: http://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/business-operations/small-business-internet/internet-linking.html

Copyright and Fair use, Stanford University Library, Connecting to other websites, [Online], Retrieved 14th October 2011

URL: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter6/6-c.html

Garage, Internet Law, Linking, Framing, and Inlining, [Online], Retrived 14th October 2011

URL: http://www.garage.com/resources/reference/internet_linking.shtml

Trademark

What is Trademark?
The term Trademark is one of the legal terms that was used to describe "intellectual property". A "Trademark" is a word, symbol, design, a phrase, that is used to give an identity to the source of the goods of one party from others.
Trademarks often mistook as the name of the product.
For example,

The word “Tupperware®” was actually a Trademark, instead of a term that was used to describe a food container.
This is because the word “Tupperware®” was registered as a Trademark, thus, behind the word “Tupperware®”, there is a symbol of a circled R, ®.

Another example is the word “Pendrive®”. This is also a Trademark, which was often used to name a USB flash drive.

A service mark is the same as a trademark, except that it identifies and distinguishes the source of a service rather than a product. Throughout this booklet, the terms "trademark" and "mark" refer to both trademarks and service marks.

The Symbols for Trademark
There are two types of Trademark, the registered and the unregistered.

For registered Trademarks, the symbol ® was used. This symbol is placed at the end of the word, phrase or a symbol.
For unregistered Trademarks, the symbol ™ was placed behind the word or phase that was intended to be used as a Trademark.

So, any other examples that you can come out with? Don't hesitate to name them in your comments!

References :
Trademark, Copyright, or Patent, United States Patent and Trademark Office. [Online], 29 September 2011.
          URL: http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/trade_defin.jsp

How to follow us on Twitter?

To follow us on Twitter, first you need a Twitter account.
It is very easy to create your own Twitter account.
Firstly, go to http://twitter.com/ and register.
Next, log in to the e-mail account that you have used for the registration for the Twitter account earlier.
Inside your Inbox, there should be an e-mail from Twitter, requesting for Twitter account verification.
Remember to check your junk mail as well! Just in case the e-mail ends up there.
The e-mail should look like something like this :

Click on the hyperlink that was included in the e-mail, and voila!

You now have your own Twitter account.

How to follow our blog?
Its easy, just click the "Follow" button at the right panel, under the tab "Follow Us On Twitter!! =D"

Podcast: Copyright Issues And Its History

CHINESE

Kok Weng:Hello 大家好，我叫国荣，首先欢迎你们进来观看我们的 blog, 今天我们要讲关于版权的事情.

Kevin Chiw:是呀我是kevin.

Fish:大家好我是fish.

Fish:首先什么是版权？版权是一种法律来保护商业人士的作品给别人偷.

Kok Weng:没错，那版权的主人还有权力来卖和分派甚至怕他的产品再生产跟多，所以能够赚到很多钱。这可是其中一个原因为什么现在很多人把这个版权的规律把他破解。

Kevin Chiw:说以版权必需被辞行，对那些犯错的人我们应该严厉处罚。尤其是马来西亚人都不把版权规律放在眼里，还继续下载有版权规律的东西，甚至还把资料放在光碟里买卖。

Fish:对了，比如美国。版权法律是很严格。除此之外，在美国警方会调查那网站。所以人么应该帮忙补抓那些犯法的人。

Kok Weng:所以呢我们应该帮忙提醒人们破解版权的法律其实是在偷别人的作品。其实马来西亚人的想法是不对的，简直不把版权规律放在眼里。这不是一件好事。

Kevin Chiw:Eh,其实你们知不知道谁创造版权规律的吗？

Kok Weng:谁创造我就不知，我所知道的是从欧洲以来的。在15年代的时候。

Fish:对了，如果没记错的话。帮全规律的目的是要来控制神书的抄别。

Kevin Chiw:原来那么早就有版权规律了?

Kok Weng:那好吧现在就到此为止。

Kevin Chiw:没错，谢谢。

ENGLISH

Kok Weng: Hello everyone, my name is Lee Kok Weng. First of all, welcome and thank you for visiting our blog. Our topic today is Copyright.

Kevin Chiw: You are right, I am Kevin

Fish: Hi everyone I am Fish.

Fish: First, what is copyright? Copyright is a type of law to protect the items of the creator from being steal by others.

Kok Weng: You are right, The owner of the item is able to generate more profits by selling its product. This is the main reason why copyright law is so important.

Kevin Chiw: Copyright law must be enforced. Those who break the copyright law should be punished heavily. Especially in Malaysia, copyright law is often abused. They

keep continue to download items that has been copyrighted illegally through the Internet.

Fish: Ya, example like US where copyright law is well enforced. Besides that, the US Police Force will take action seriously to those who broke the copyright law.

Kok Weng: This is the reason why we should alert the people around us that we are actually stealing items from other people. The mindset of the Malaysian are wrong indeed. They thought of this as nothing important. This is not a good thing.

Kevin Chiw: Eh, do you guys know who created the copyright law?

Kok Weng: I don't know who created it. But the person who created it is in Europe from the 15th Century.

Fish: If im not mistaken. The real reason copyright law was created is to stop the priting of the holy bible.

Kevin Chiw: Wow i didn't knew that copyright law existed for so long.

Kok Weng: OK! Thats it for now.

Kevin Chiw: You are right. Thank you for listening everyone!

Week Two Poll Analysis Result

Week Two Poll Analysis Result

In the previous week, we created a poll titled "What do you think is the major concern of internet legal issues in today's society?". The result is collected and analysed, and will be showed in a pie chart form below.

There are total of 9 people voted the poll. The pie chart shows that copyright has the most percentage of voters with 55.6% which is equivalent to 5 votes. 22% of the people voted for privacy which is 2 votes. Dos attack and hacking had 11% each with 1 vote. While defamation has no percentage of vote.

Conclusion, it shows that copyright is the law which most internet user will bound to ignored it. Do you agree with the poll? If you're interested, drop by a comment to discuss it.

Internet Defamation

Internet Defamation is a fake or false statement fact that harms the reputation of one target. The target is most likely to be a public figure. Internet Defamation is express in different ways, examples like libel and slander. Libel is a written defamation while slander is a spoken defamation.

Types of Internet Defamation

Statements that are defamatory on their face - Under Internet defamation law principles, these statement are obviously defamatory. It usually results in the largest awards in online defamation litigation.

Internet defamation through false innuendo - Individuals possessing necessary contextual knowledge that appreciate the defamatory nature of the statement.

Internet defamation through legal innuendo - These statements are not defamatory on their face, but is defamatory when viewed with extrinsic information.

What are the elements for defamation claim?

The following elements is needed for defamation claim are:

1. A publication to one other than the person defamed.

2. A false statement of fact that is understood as

- being of and concerning the plaintiff

- tending to harm the reputation of plaintiff

3. If the plaintiff is a public figure, he or she must also prove actual malice.

Credit to:

Electronic Frontier Foundation, Online Defamation Law, [Online]

URL: https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/defamation

Domingo J.Rivera, Rivera Technology Law ; Internet Defamation Law, [Online]

URL: http://www.cyberdefamationlawyer.com/Internet_Defamation_Law.html

Week One Poll Analysis

In the week one's lab task, we are required to insert a poll which is relevant to the topic of the blog. The question of the poll is 'Why do you think that most internet users abuses or misuses the internet illegally?'

Thus, in this week, the results of the poll are collected and analyzed. In about one week's time, there are a total of 16 votes. 62.5% of the total voters voted for "For downloading games, music, etc", and 18.75% voted for the reason "For fun". Thirdly is the reason " For adult content", which makes up of 12.5%, and lastly 6.25% voted for the reason " To prove that he/she is above the law".

In my opinion, i personally think that most of the visitors who voted for the reason "For downloading games. music, etc" are teenagers. This is because at this time and era, 95% of teenagers of the world downloads music, games even movies from the internet. Besides that, teenagers often listen to music and plays computer games, thus it is sensible for teenagers to choose this reason.

Here is a picture of the poll created in week 1 lab task and a picture of the pie chart created with Microsoft Excel :
                                                                                                                                                                   

                                          

   

Rules and Regulations of Copyright issues

Users of the internet nowadays does not know the rules and regulation of the internet. They uses it by just following their hearts which tells them what they wanna do and what they don't wanna do. This makes the differents between what you need to do and also what you mustn't do. By using internet the copy and distribute rate become higher than in the realistic world. Internet is quick and can copy a dozen in just a few minutes. Compare to last time copy a file people will need to use hours to do it but in the Internet, the moment you put the video or file in the Internet the whole world might watch or listen to what you have post or uploaded. These are some of the rules and regulation that pupils should think about and changed the attitude of how and what they should do.

DOWNLOADING AND UPLOADING
When you purchase music, video, text or other files on the Internet and download them to your computer, you can't share those files with others unless you've made arrangements with the copyright owner to do so. If you re-upload without permission then you will be fined per violation $150,000. With nowadays there are too many software and websites that help users in doing those kinds of things that makes the pupils buy imitation than buying the original because the quality of the song has no different so everyone will started buying the imitation. The price of an original disc is around RM29.90-RM50.00 but an imitation disc is usually being priced around RM10 that is sold in the night markets.

CREDITED TO:

http://my.real.com/?mode=rp - photos/pictures and information about how it works
http://www.ehow.com/list_6674069_copyright-rules-internet.html - rules and regulation about copyright issues.

Copyright Issues In The Music Industry

Copyright issues is a major concern in the music industry. The main reason why is because nowadays people will download music/video from artist/singer from the internet without thinking the aftermath that will happen.

Piracy

Piracy is a copyright law that counters musical theft. Currently there are 3 types of principal forms of piracy.

1. Piracy - The unauthorised duplication of a sound recording for commercial gain usually involving repackaging and distribution.
2. Counterfeiting - The unauthorised duplication and distribution of a sound recording for commercial gain such that its packaging is indistinguishable from the original.
3. Bootlegging - The unauthorised duplication and distribution of a live performance or broadcast work for commercial gain.

The Five Exclusive Rights

A composer or an owner of a copyrighted work should practices the following rights.

1. Reproduce the copyrighted work in a series of copies or phonorecords.
2. Prepare derivative works based on the copyrighted work.
3. Distribute copies of phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or transfer of ownership, rental, lease, or lending.
4. Perform the copyrighted work publicly.
5. Display the copyrighted work publicly.

The term "phonorecords" actually extend to any medium past present or future thereby including CD, DVD and any format not yet invented.

Credit: http://www.planetoftunes.com/projectmanagement/copyright/copyright_music_makers.htm

http://therightcopy.co.uk/copyright_facts/music_industry_copyright_issues.html