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

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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

Types of Copyright

What is Copyright? Copyright is something like a privilege, an ownership only for the person who had produced something him or herself. However, many do not know that there are different types of Copyright.

Public Performing Right

The exclusive right of the copyright owner, granted by the U.S. Copyright Law, to authorize the performance or transmission of the work in public.

Public Performance License

For example, BMI issues licenses on behalf of the copyright owner or his agent granting the right to perform the work in, or transmit the work to, the public.

Reproduction Right

The exclusive right of the copyright owner, granted by the Copyright Act, to authorize the reproduction of a musical work as in a record, cassette or CD.

Mechanical License

For example, Harry Fox Agency, Inc. issues licenses on behalf of the copyright owner or his agent, usually to a record company, granting the record company the right to reproduce and distribute a specific composition at an agreed upon fee per unit manufactured and sold. 

Synchronization License

Music Publishers issue licenses as copyright owner or his agent, usually to a producer, granting the right to synchronize the musical composition in timed relation with audio-visual images on film or videotape.

Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings

Sound Exchange along with Record Companies license the exclusive rights on behalf of copyright owners in a sound recording under U.S. Copyright Law to authorize many digital transmissions (e.g., Internet streaming).

Credits :  http://www.bmi.com/licensing/entry/533606