Basic guidelines for kids interested in blogging

The following tips are a guideline to kids that are interested in blogging.parents can tell them that they should:
•Don’t offer any personal information such as g your last name, phone numbers, home address, e-mail address, last names of friends or relatives, age, or birth date and so on.
•Never post exciting pictures of yourself or anyone else.Be careful about images that upload in your blog that don’t show personal information and always look at back ground of pictures carefully.
•Pay attention to contents that you post on the web because they are permanent an any one can print ans save them easily
• Use blogging provider sites that can protects your blog actually, not only your username and password.
•Keep away to compete with other bloggers.
•Use positive and confident contents on your blog and never use it for defamation and violence to others.

http://www.microsoft.com/protect/parents/social/blogging.aspx

Regulating Hate Speech in Cyberspace: Issues of Desirability and Efficacy

Cyber-libertarians believe that cyberspace must support unlimited free speech and no regulation on internet content. Despite this idea, nations are making obligatory individual regimes of content regulation. It is impossible to obtain universal agreement on Internet content regulation. There is a wide disagreement about how freedom of speech applies to the Internet. Nations such as Germany and France have considered both criminal and civil penalties for hate speech on the Internet. However, they face with difficulties, especially when the defendants are not nationals, and when the content originates from foreign jurisdictions. The Council of Europe has recently moved to include an additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime. This Protocol would cover offences of racist or xenophobic propaganda, making them subject to reciprocal enforcement provisions by Member States. Although the piecemeal approaches may lead to failure, the international efforts have more chance of the success.
source: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a713670470

image: hate speech cartoon by David Fitzsimmons

Hate speech

Any communication that is intended to humiliate any person or a group on the basis of some characteristic such as race or sexual orientation is hate speech. In law, hate speech is any speech, gesture or conduct, writing, or display which is banned. The reason to ban hate speech is to prevent the violence or prejudicial action against or by a protected individual or group.
The law may identify a protected individual or a protected group by race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, or other characteristic. In some countries have considered criminal or civil penalties or both for hate speech.
A website that uses hate speech is called a hate site. Most of these sites contain Internet forums and news briefs that emphasize a particular viewpoint. You could find common characteristics of hate sites in following link:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0ux7dI7y9iMJ:www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/online_hate/deconst_online_hate.cfm&hl=en&strip=1
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech

Which organizations protect the civil liberties of internet users?

The Global Internet Liberty Campaign [1] was formed at the annual meeting of the Internet Society in Montreal to protect and promote the civil liberties of users and operators of computer based communications systems such as the Internet. Members of the combination include the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Human Rights Watch, the Internet Society, Privacy International, the Association des Utilisateurs d'Internet, and other civil liberties and human rights organizations.

The major objectives of the member organizations of GILC are to protect and promote fundamental human rights such as freedom of speech and the right of privacy of users and operators of computer based communications systems such as the Internet in everywhere. You can find the members in following link: http://gilc.org/about/members.html

EFA[2] is on of the GILC members that is independent of government and commerce. the organization advocates the amendment of laws and regulations in Australia and elsewhere which limit free speech. One of the other major activities of the organization is to educate the community at large about the social, political, and civil liberties issues involved in the use of computer based communications systems.

Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) [3] is another member who covers such important issues as the regulation of child pornography on the cyber and UK Government’s encryption policy. The organization provides last news and information about free speech and privacy on the Internet.

[1] http://gilc.org/

[2] http://www.efa.org.au/

[3] http://www.cyber-rights.org/

A quick blogging primer for parents

Recent researches show half of blogs are written by teenagers .there are potential threats I sharing of their detail personal information that because they have to tendency to competite for attention.
Although keeping weblog improve their skills in writing and communication but is important that parents give them correct information about risks and benefits of cyberspace. Here are a few suggestions to get started:
•Create regulations online use with your kids and be persistent
•Screen contents that your kids wanted to post in its weblog
•Tanger , if not take out it.When you want to post a content in the weblog, ask yourself that you can show it to a stranger if not take out it.
•Evaluate service provider and realize if it offers private password for protect weblog
•Save weblog address you kids and always review the contents.
•Show positive weblog to your kids and teach them that how use weblogs usefully
source:
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/parents/social/blogging.aspx

Adult Content and Child Safety

Adult Content: We do allow adult content on Blogger, including images or videos that contain nudity or sexual activity. But, please mark your blog as 'adult' in your Blogger settings. Otherwise, we may put it behind a 'mature content' interstitial.
There are some exceptions to our adult content policy:
Do not use Blogger as a way to make money on adult content. For example, don't create blogs where a significant percentage of the content is ads or links to commercial porn sites.
No incest or bestiality content: We do not allow image, video or text content that depicts or encourages incest or bestiality.
Child safety: We have a zero tolerance policy towards content that exploits children. Some examples of this include:
Child pornography: We will terminate the accounts of any user we find publishing or distributing child pornography. We will also report that user to law enforcement.
Pedophilia: We do not allow content that encourages or promotes sexual attraction towards children. For example, do not create blogs with galleries of images of children where the collection of images or text accompanying the images is sexually suggestive.
source: http://www.blogger.com/content.g

Real Estate Blogger Sued By Developer

Review the principal of copyright by famous tales

The video [1] is put out by students of Stanford that review the principal of copyright through famous tales.

[1] http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/biguploads/Fair(y)_Use_Tale_Stanford_Cut-21MB.mp4

Bloggers' Rights

Electronic Frontier Foundation(EFF) is an organization that bottle for bloggers' rights in the courtroom. Their website lists some bloggers' rights as below[1]:

• Bloggers can be journalists (and journalists can be bloggers). Blogger is a journalist, with all of the attendant rights, privileges, and protections.


• Bloggers are entitled to free speech. Internet bullies shouldn't use copyright, defamation, or other claims to chill your legal speech.


• Bloggers have the right to political speech.


• Bloggers have the right to stay anonymous. Blogger could keep his or her identity private when he or she blog. it is as constitutional right to anonymous speech online.


• Bloggers have freedom from liability for hosting speech the same way other web hosts do.

[1]http://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers

The book of Law of Blogging

There is a book on the "Law of Blogging" was released on 2007. At first, this book discuses about legal definition of blogging and then illustrate some topic that blogger should know as copyright, defamation and threats from businesses, government, cults and non-profits and individuals. It’s available for $9.95 directly from the author as a PDF download only.

source: http://www.slaw.ca/2007/09/11/the-law-of-blogging/

Copyright in Photography

According to copyright a photographer can control copying , transmitting and reproducing pictures but Incorrect interpretations of copyright law and how applying it in the internet make much mistakes about photography copyright. Some of them mention in following:
• One of the more usual mistakes about photograph copyright is that a person took the picture ,did not pay money so there is n’t any infringement of copyright.it is obviously false and that can be judged in the court.
• Another common misconception is that photographer tags its name and an authorized © style copyright sign then it does not have copyright, it is incorrect in most of countries around the world and hasn’t been since 1989.The person took the picture is owner and his/her works has right of the copyright.
• One of the worst mistakes is that if photographer post his/her pictures in a public place such as internet so people can copy and use them simply.This again is not true .Just in the case that photographer state“I place these images in the public domain for free use by anyone” you can use the images.
Copy right laws simultaneously defend your pictures and avoid you take works of other people. Therefore you should pay attention when dealing with images on the internet.

Source: http://www.photographywebsite.co.uk/copyright-in-photography-c494.html

Cyber Crime Tops List of Most Common Crimes in Malaysia

Malaysian national news outlet Bernama stated that the most crimes in Malaysia are financial and cyber crimes. Tommy Seah, honorary group chairperson of International Cybercrime and Forensics Examiner Group of Companies, said in an interview with Bernama Tuesday “Malaysia is a pretty docile country but we are also not well equipped in preventing such crimes,” He continued “Skills and knowledge can be transferred and acquired and Malaysia has the ability but the corporate will to put the house in order is more vital.” Two-day International Cyber and Economic Crime Conference in Kuala Lumpur that organized by the ICFE and CSI World Headquarters, will begin June 15 2010 provide citizens an opportunity to update their skills, especially in digital forensics.

News source: http://www.thenewnewinternet.com/2010/04/15/cyber-crime-tops-list-of-most-common-crimes-in-malaysia/

Copyright and the Internet

As Wikipedia define, “Copyright is the set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. These rights can be licensed, transferred and/or assigned.”
For copyright , internet can be a great menace.The internet is full of information with varyting degrees of copyright protection.
Copyrighted works on the Net include new s stories, software, novels, screenplays, graphics, pictures, Usenet messages and even email.

When creating a Web page, you CAN:
•Link to other Web sites.
•Use free graphics on your Web page. If the graphics are not advertised as "free" they should not be copied without permission.

When creating a Web page, you CANNOT:
•Put the contents of another person's or organizations web site on your Web page
•Copy and paste information from diferent Internet sources to create "your own" document.
•Incorporate other people's electronic material, such as e-mail, in your own document, without permission.
•Forward someone's e-mail to another recipient without permission
•Change or edit the context of someone in a way which changes the meaning
•Copy and paste others' lists of resources on your own web page
•Copy and paste logos, icons, and other graphics from other web sites to your web page

source:http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/copyright-internet.htm

Responsibility of blog user in copyright

I’d do a quick comparison of their terms of service as regards user-uploaded content to the terms specified by blog service provider. In this post I focus on responsibility of users in copyright.

wordpress: Does not enforce copyrights laws and proprietary laws when materials downloaded on the site[1].

blogspot: is part of Google, state that the blogger and Google must comply with copyright and proprietary laws. Google furthermore reserves the right to refuse to accept, post, display or transmit any Content in its sole discretion[2].

MySpace: exercises full control and ownership of the materials content and services on their web site, also complies with copy right and proprietary laws, however they permit reproduce of material for personal use only[3].

squarespace: They exercise strict compliance with copyright and proprietary laws, and access of any material should be per agreement[4].

typepad: Typepad service material and software material is protected per copyright and proprietary laws, however typepad state that the content of advertisers sponsors maybe protected by copy rights and proprietary laws[5].

sources:
[1] http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
[2] http://www.blogger.com/terms.g
[3] http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=misc.terms
[4] http://www.squarespace.com/terms/
[5] http://www.typepad.com/legal/terms-of-service.html

Blogger Content Policy

Blogger is a free service for communication, self-expression and freedom of speech but there are some boundaries for context. When you sign in, you should announce that you are agree with content policy.
These items are as follow: Adult Content, Child Safety, Hate Speech, Crude Content, Violence, Copyright, Personal and Confidential Information, Impersonating Others, Illegal Activities, Spam, Malware and Viruses
Usually these terms are same in others blog providers. We compare these policy in future posts.

source:
http://www.blogger.com/content.g