let's talk Cyber Law

The world of information technology is growing tremendously. More and more computer users surf the cyberspace everyday. Advancement in communication technology enables the usage of Internet in various aspects of our daily live. Cyberspace is a space without boundary, law enforcement and virtual. Computers are used as a medium to surf this space with Internet technology. Various activities ranging from business, education, government ruling and others uses Internet. The wide usage of Internet imposes a new problem, computer crime. The law enforcement for computer crimes is categorized as Cyber Law.
This is a very specific law to prevent unlawful activities involving the usage of computers. Cyber Law should be amended frequently along with the growth of Internet technology. This law has to be comprehensive. The definition used has to be precise to avoid any confusion. The definition analysis on computer crime act has to be conducted regularly. This is to ensure latest definition in the world of information technology is updated on a timely manner. Computer crimes can be prevented using prevention steps. These steps will help to curb these crimes.

A study on the computer crime Act. Masters thesis, Universiti Utara Malaysia.
URL:http://eprints.uum.edu.my/1308/

The above article is briefly explain what is Cyber Law. As it stated, It prevent the computer crimes by enforcing the law. Moreover, I found out that the world has one called the cyber law enforcement organization. the officer are specialize to do investigation of cybercrime, and training to be assist to the cyber crime victims online. Just like they are handling child pornography.

I think the cyber law is good enough to handle those unwanted crime cases or anything that would affect the children because we all know the children are easy to be influenced and tend to learn and imitate everything when they see a picture, sound, or video as well. However, I think it's not stricten enough because nowadays there are still many crime cases happen around through internet. For example, people who like to online dating, they are easily to let the cheater to spot them because they believe them although has not meet before. Therefore, I do really hope the cyber law can be stricten to protect the surfer, so that in the future we can just do useful thing in the net instead of bring harm to our life.

Some issues may concern to build an Online Business in Blog

Nowadays many people are keep creating blog to build an online business selling groceries such as fashion is one of the most popular. By creating a blog to sell stuff is the cheapest way and begin without cost because we no need to pay rental no need to pay telephone bills, eletric bills water bills, staff salary and so on. Everyone intend to begin this business but some of the issue they might be concern while build up their network.
This is myself experience whereby me myself also bought some shirts through friends blog. I wanted to create a blog account and build up my network to function this as for my part time carrier manage to manage my business. Somehow I asked some professionals to give some opinion about creating a blog to sell shirts they thought me about what to be concern. Is not simply to create a blog then you can selling any stuff in internet. If I am going to selling the shirt with brand image we could not just post up online we could not just buy a MNG shirt from MNG shop then sell it in your blog. You may have to get permission of copyright to publish your selling stuff. Even if you are selling a shirt with Mickey Mouse logo Mickey Mouse company have a right to sue you related into copyright issue. The safetest way is create your own product such as handmade or creating own designed shirt which is totally original created by you. Therefore do not neglect some important issue when you start an online business blogging.

This is one of the example for reference bout how people build up online business by blogging. My friend had created this blog selling shirt in internet:
URL: http://myclosetgiggles.blogspot.com/

Analysis of the poll 1 results.

This is the chart which showing the results of the poll question. Hundred percents (100%) of the respondents thinks that the public have neglect the legal issue in internet. The results shows how serious of this issue around us.

Ya everyone of us knew the importance of the legal issue, yet people would do anything for free stuff! The public not even care about all these legal issues when they download songs, movie, copy people's work from the internet, It's free! who don't want?

More over, some of them thinks that the original discs or books are too expensive for them especially for the students．Therefore, clicking a link and download the latest, hottest stuff from the website which is not cost them became the "must" action for them when they start surfing the net.

This is too bad because it's violating the original work of the authors or the composers. It will make their sales decrease badly as everyone is relying on the net and it's make the country's economy drop as well! Am I too serious? No, It's not an exaggeration. For my opinion, the government need to do something to prevent this issue gone to worse and to protect the authors. Hopefully someday someone who invent a "detecter" which can stop people from downloading the original work, or every of the laptop/pc install a system which will automatically delete the items after 24 hours of the download. I think this is much more effective than what the government do? Am I right? =)

What Do You Know About Plagiarism?

What do you know about plagiarism?

Plagiarism refers to the use of another information or writing without proper acknowledgment of the original source. Is just like simply copy and paste use as your own work. Its too often happened especially student in universities tend to copy assignment when they have not enough time to do research. Last minutes work have the tendency to copy others and due to carelessness in the writer's information gathering process. Directly copying a public-domain work is still plagiarism unless the original work is noted.

Somehow I think we did the same mistake when the beginning we step into college do our assignment we also tend to copy and paste without doing references just treat as our own work. Actually is exactly stealing people works. just like we doing this project of blogging Mr.Andrew thought us make sure to put referencing must do reference every piece of information that you borrow from another source because the intellectual property of the individuals or groups of people who have produced it. All statements, opinions, conclusions, images, etc. which you have taken from someone else ’ s work should be acknowledged, whether the work is mentioned, described, reproduced, summarised, paraphrased or directly quoted by you, Mr Andrew says.
P.eople will have the right to sue you if you been suspect copy without permission and did not do referencing. So you now you understand the plagiarism is so scary. Think before you copy others work!

Resources:
URL - Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism
URL- http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/plagiarism.html
URL - http://www.mumnme.net/sitepics/mum%20n%20me%20flower%20logo%20smaller.jpg

Copy the source

Paste into your work

This is how plagiarism works. Copy + Paste

A sharing of my friend

I got a friend is doing law for her studies.
Here is some information that she shares with me about trademark.

A trade mark can be a logo, picture, a slogan or any combination of all these.

Here is the examples :-

Example of trademark slogan and logo

Example of trademark logo

Example of trademark logo

Example of trademark picture (Konica)

Example trademark of combination of logo and slogan

More over, she told me that, not every name is registrable, for example like PERFECT. Actually not everyone have to apply for trademark, however if somebody is infringing your mark and the mark is not registered, there will be a "passing off" law and this action is very expensive.

After these, I had understand more deeply about what is trademark and it's lucky to have a friend like her. In the future I think if I'm doing business I would be apply for the trademark to ensure my mark is not infringe by others.

The example of Trademark

This is the example of trademark. I just created my own with this picture in microsoft power point and edit it with adding a logo as the example of trademark. Right hand side picture with own designed trademark where as left hand side picture without trademark. The trademark can be designed by own as an identity of your own picture and to protect your sources instead of get steal by those who copy without permission and just copy for as their own sources.
Can you identify it? I think this is easier the clarify the meaning of the previous blog. Picture can speaks more than words.

A brief of trade mark

Trade mark is a distinctive name, symbols, motto, or design that legally identifies a company or its product and services, and sometimes prevents others from using identical or similar marks.

URL: http://www.investorwords.com/5023/trademark.html

Sometimes people will get confuse by the different between trade mark, patent and copyright. So what is the different between three of these? Trade mark is different from copyright and patent while a copyright provides protection for an artistic or literary work. And, a patent provides protection for an invention. Unlike copyrights and patents, trade marks rights
may be renewed for each consecutive period of 10 years indefinitely, if the trade mark continues to be used.

Besides that, is it everyone can register a trade mark? Actually it is not, only the owner of the trade mark can register the trade mark. The owner can be an individual, partnership or a company.

In Malaysia, the registration of trade mark does takes approximately 18-24 months to get registered from the date the application is filed. This is provided the application does not encounter any objections or oppositions.

URL: http://cnssolution.net/CNS%20Pens%20-%20Trademark%20FAQ.pdf

After I read these article, I understand well about what is trade mark all about. I start understand better about the different of copyright and trade mark as the copyright is only protected the literary like a song, a drawing only. the trade mark will be like prevent using the similar marks for example, Mc Donald have trade mark normally known as TM, people can't copy the name.

So do you guys understand the trade mark after read my article and can give some feedback? hopefully it's work. Thanks have a great day!



Joanne Wong

Beware when you download music!!!

Nowadays is so convenience for us to download our favorite music from internet instead of buying CD from shop either pirated! just search the website most popular is Limewire and Baidu for (especially for chinese songs) click the button of Downloading, file sharing program after collected all the song and burn into CD-ROM then you can get all your favorite singer's latest song or old song as well. Any song is possible to find through internet.

But i just read an article bout about downloading music is the copyright protection laws that people break everyday by downloading some music tracks off the Internet. but laws regarding the sharing and dowloading of music on the internet are different from country to country. So different countries different law issue about this copyright of music downloading!

Such as Canada dowloading copyright music networks is legal but for US Copyright Act is much more strict and illegal. In more general items that related is about the copyright are unauthorized reproduction, adaption or distribution of recodings.

So guys, get some knowledge before download songs. For Malaysian I am not sure about this, but my opinion is quite unfair for the singers and distributors' right. For what I knew surrounding us we will only buy and support our own favourtie singers. Those unwell known singer just simply download from the website is convenience and did not cost us a single cent. Recession is coming is this another excuse for people 'free donwload' from website rather than buy a CD that cost us 30 to 40 bucks?

Yvonne