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.