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.
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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.