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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!
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 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.
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 :
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.
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.
Piracy - The unauthorised duplication of a sound recording for commercial gain usually involving repackaging and distribution.
Counterfeiting - The unauthorised duplication and distribution of a sound recording for commercial gain such that its packaging is indistinguishable from the original.
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.
Reproduce the copyrighted work in a series of copies or phonorecords.
Prepare derivative works based on the copyrighted work.
Distribute copies of phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or transfer of ownership, rental, lease, or lending.
Perform the copyrighted work publicly.
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.
