Freedom of speech in cyberspace

Hi friends. I'd like to carry on the issue of freedom of speech in cyberspace.As you see these days in many countries, speech through cyberspace has proven to be another means of communication which has been regulated by the government.in recent years has been released numerous reports documenting the filtration of internet-speech in various countries. While China has thus far proven to be the most rigorous in its attempts to filter unwanted parts of the internet from its citizens ,many other countries including Singapore, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia have engaged in similar practices. In one of the most clear examples of information-control, the Chinese government for a short time transparently forwarded requests to the Google search engine to its own, state-controlled search engines . These examples of filtration bring to light many underlying questions concerning the freedom of speech, namely, does the government have a legitimate role in limiting access to information? And if so, what forms of regulation are acceptable? The recent blocking of "blogspot" and other websites in India failed to reconcile the conflicting interests of speech and expression on the one hand and legitimate government concerns on the other hand.what idea do you have in this respect. I appreciate it if you share your idea with me.

FREEDOM ON THE NET

Hi,my friends. in this post I'm going to share an informative issue with you which is the interesting study about freedom on digital media.As internet and mobile phone use explodes worldwide, governments are adopting new and multiple means for controlling these technologies that go far beyond technical filtering. Freedom on the Net provides a comprehensive look at these emerging tactics, raising concern over trends such as the ‘outsourcing of censorship’ to private companies, the use of surveillance and the manipulation of online conversations by undercover agents. study evaluates the level of internet and mobilephone freedom experienced by average users and activists in a sample of 15 countries across 6 regions: China, India, and Malaysia in Asia; Cuba and Brazil in Latin America; Egypt,Tunisia, and Iran in the Middle East and North Africa; Kenya and South Africa in sub-Saharan Africa; Russia, Estonia, and Georgia in the former Soviet Union; and the United Kingdom and Turkey in Europe.
Writer says Covering the calendar years 2007 and 2008, the index addresses a range of factors that might affect such freedom, including the state of telecommunications infrastructure, government restrictions on access to technology, the regulatory framework for service providers, censorship and content control, the legal environment, surveillance, and extralegal attacks on users or content producers. The selected indicators capture not only the actions of governments but also the vigor, diversity, and activism of the new media domain in each country, regardless of—or despite—state efforts to restrict usage.
read more in:
http://www.freedomhouse.org/uploads/specialreports/NetFreedom2009/FreedomOnTheNet_FullReport.pdf

Iran blocks wordpress!!!

Hi there. I'm glad having new post today. but I'm really regret about the news I heard the other days.the news was that Iranian government blocked wordpress so that prevent bloggers to air country's ordinary information like video and pictures on internet. Iran officials blieve public does not have right to exchange issues happening inside the country and indeed they try to limit flow of information to stop democracy comes true.Infact this issue resulting from government with respect to some riots rose last year in relation to presidency election.as we see there is not enough freedom atmosphere in Iran and people are incurred lots of trouble to communicat with each other in light of internet facilities.this situation has driven bloggers switch to other web facilities .
get further information in:http://mashable.com/2009/05/23/iran-blocks-facebook
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/20/turkey-blocks-wordpr.html

A real case regarding cyberlaw around us

Hi there. Today I have something I like to share with you. I'd be pleased if you can share your ideas in this regard. The issue is that the other days one friends of mine posed a matter has happend to him and he liked to get my opinion in that respect and since I suppose two heads is better than the one, therefore I decided to get your point of view too. May we can find the best way for it and may we can get good exprience in light of that. The matter is that someone stranger has put a very insulting comment in my friend's face book page and used very vulgar words toward his family (mother and sister) and threatening him to revenge for uncertain things. Since he or she is unknown so it put very big question mark for my friend if who is that and what is the purpose of that rudely action . My friend wish to find that person and take some action against him or her . Having severly got angry he started to retaliate the same and he also took some bad word against him because he suspected of someone in their next doors and some evidence indicate his guess is true. But when he talked me I pointed out that the better choise to handling this problem is retaliation but also he must reffere this matter to police and make complaint against that person . Also I suggested to him so that collect and save all respective information in a file and deliver them the police to be pursuable.
since this issue is regarding the cyberlaw so I like to have your idea and suggestion . May this real case be interesting for you to match with your fresh knowledge regarding to our lessone "cyberlaw" , I hope so.please put comment.

Experienced Lawyers Handling Copyright Infringement, Media Law, Defamation and Free Speech

Experienced Lawyers Handling Copyright Infringement, Media Law, Defamation and Free Speech

Copyright Termination of Transfer

Hi My friends.I read a interesting article about recent changes in copyright in U.S that can be useful for you to know it. so I'd like to share it with you. I hope we can brush up our knowledge about many topics around cyberlaw which in light of this knowledge may we be able to avoid some troubles and handle our business at the best. I hope so.
Copyright Law has changed in both scope and length of copyright provisions. It originally was 14 years with a possibilities of a renewal of 14 years. It changed to be 28 years for initial term and then another 28 year renewal term. Congress then added 19 years and then another 20, eventually creating a system of dual term copyrights. Today we have a unitary term system based for most works on the life of the author plus 70 years. That dual term system is actually related to one of the types of termination rights that are currently in the Copyright Act. Damien Allen and Lydia Loren discuss the challenges and the provisions of Copyright Transfer Terminations on today's program.
•The Copyright Act gives authors and their families certain rights to terminate agreements
•Section 203 Termination Rights of the Copyright Act, in Title 17 of the United States Code are for agreements entered into after the 1976 Copyright Act, effective January 1, 1978. For 203 terminations, you can terminate an agreement entered into by an author 35 years after the date of the agreement.
•Section 304 terminations relate to the lengthening of copyright terms of agreements that were entered into before the effective date of the 1976 Act.
http://tcattorney.typepad.com/digital_millennium_copyri/2010/03/copyright_termination_of_transfer.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct+%28Digital+Millennium+Copyright+Act+Alerts%29

cyber right in china

Hi there. we had today lecture about aspects of cyber right across the world. I like to have look china's reaction about this subject. reviewing press news I ran into a topic concerning cyber right in china.As most of us heard recently China's government began to harden control over the get out transmitting information about states.That goes in so far as to define every thing as a secret information , including, maps, GPS coordinates, even economic statistics - could fall under the category, and officials sometimes use the classification as a way to avoid disclosing information.

In the century that many countries widely talk about global village and explosion information century hearing that news from China as a fast growing economy which must play based on global rules, can surprise us!However according to the idealogy and rulling policy each country tend to come out specifice define of freedom in cyber right and in general human right which can directly impact on degree of freedom can be exposed in internet communication and approaching to global thinking and living.
read more in:http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/27/tech/main6435422.shtml