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 :