Chapter+10

Ryan's Presentation with notes:

Chris Thomsen's Class Notes:

Leading class Ryan P.

Notes Chris Thomsen

Today's class: starring Kevin Clough

Here come the judges (and lawyers) As the Internet expands and laws are put in place to govern the Internet, laws are inevitably broken and our judicial system becomes more and more active in regards to the internet.

People in many ways are able to defame, harass, and otherwise damage other peoples' reputations and often their livelihoods online... This is really where the need for active laws and rules comes into place.

Copyright laws especially are prone to issues online, it is now very easy to spread, share, and steal music, photos, and other content online without citing the original producer or owner.

Journalist Zero The beginning of journalism in a purely online format, this approach was wildly successful because this was really what people wanted to be available.

Business men and others that rely on their online reputation need to be aware of the dangers that accompany online transactions. There are less people reviewing their posts, editing for content, and otherwise proofreading it.

There is also the concern that people could act unfavorably towards you, such information spreads quickly online, much faster than information would in a physically printed format.

Bloggers and many other users are liable to be sued for their actions online, this is another major concern.

Add your comment Should people get in trouble if the website that they run had racist/sexist or otherwise insulting or demeaning comments posted and failed to remove them?

--A new law was passed to protect sites like blogger by not holding them accountable for the content that people post on sites that they host.

The ability for people comment anonymously has raised new issues, people often feel emboldened by their anonymity and they say things they would never say if their name were attached to it.

NYMOX This Canadian company demanded that yahoo turn over information about people that had posted comments that they claimed had damaged their company.

The issue went to court and NYMOX was not able to provide enough proof that these comments had truly damaged their company.

Jurisdiction A man claimed that an online news article was the equivalent of a newspaper article in every paper around the world. He sued Barron's for an article of theirs and won on this idea.

How can issues like this be resolved? Who should govern the Internet? Who has jurisdiction and where?

Some countries have blocked various sites, filtered search results, etc to stop the flow of Internet information to their citizens.

Intel A man was fired from intel then promptly sued for sending out mass emails to intel employees defacing intel. He won the case because it was ruled pro-freedom of speech as well as noting that email cannot readily harm a company.

Turn It In (the website) One benefit that has come from the Internet is the ability for people to search online to find out whether contents plagiarized etc.

Turn it in (dot) com provides a service that will scour the Internet in search of potentially plagiarized material.

Domain names People have the ability to create domain names that they know a company should have the right to. There are organizations now that to get sites like this turned over to the actual companies that are referenced.

Sites are also removed if they negatively reference other legitamate companies, like newyorktimes-sucks.com.

Belmont Hill was actually forced to pay for the domain name from a "squatter" that was occupying a more favorable domain name.

DVD and Digital Rights Management DVD's are encrypted with codes to protect them from being illegally reproduced.

Teens in Norway were able to crack the code, this was not deemed illegal. But when they posted "how-to" articles online showing others how to crack the code on the DVD's they were then deemed at fault and sued.