Laws and regulations are an integral part of modern society, and they have been with us for a very long time, many centuries to be exact, giving us a guide to follow and conventions to respect. Well, the Internet has also become an integral part of modern society, and it’s no wonder that many countries all around the world are trying to create Internet or Cyber laws that will govern everything we do online. One of the most important Internet laws is in fact the Internet Copyright Law, and here will be discussed how it works in some detail. The US Internet Copyright Law Everything created on the Internet after the date of April 1 1989 is protected under the American Internet Copyright Law. This can in many cases probably be difficult to understand, but the fact is that if you come from the USA, and you have created something and uploaded it on the World Wide Web is the last 20 years or so, this work of your is protected, and it cannot be stolen by anybody. However, this is true only in theory. The Problems with the Internet Copyright Law Yes, it is true that you hold all rights to your work as the original author ever since your work has seen the light of the Internet day. Yes, it is also true that you have the right to take action if someone happens to steal your original work from the Web.

However, the problem arises when there is more than one country involved in this process. Namely, if you are an American, and your work has been illegally downloaded by a person from let’s say Albania, there’s probably nothing you’ll be able to do about it. The reason for this is the fact that most countries don’t have any rules or regulations regarding the Internet, so even though you might know exactly who stole your work, in many cases you will not be able to act on this fact. Another important issue related to the Internet Copyright Law is the fact that you often cannot know who violated the law, meaning that there are ways to steal your work from the Internet without you knowing who was actually responsible. For example, modern technology can, by tracing IP addresses, tell you where the person who stole your work was, but can never tell you exactly who this person is.

The Internet Copyright Law and Plagiarism Plagiarism is another interesting subject related to the Internet Copyright Law, as in many cases it cannot be proven. For example, if you have taken a photograph and uploaded it to the Web, and if someone took this photo without crediting you as the original author, then you can make this person remove the photo, or even sue the person. However, if you have written an original article, for instance, and uploaded it on the Internet, you cannot do anything if someone read your article and steals the idea, even though plagiarism is actually defined as using someone else’s words, quotes or even ideas as their own.

Cyber crime is the crime committed by using computer on the internet. Internet is being utilized for committing serious and heinous crime. The scope of cyber crime is very vast because these crimes are committed at the large scale to discourage the military of a country and at the same time, these crimes are able to weaken the strength of a country by mishandling the countries intelligence or illegally selling the intelligence to enemy country. Cyber crime has become the bigger threat to the confidentiality and secrecy of an individual, a group, business or a country. What is cyber crime? Cyber crime is the use of corrupt and criminal activities towards any individual, group, business or a country, by using computer and internet. These crimes are committed to retrieve the secret and confidential intelligence and vital information or by sending the fake emails of any terror attack or threat motive. These crimes are used as the weapon to carry out the serious crime and trace of the criminal or crime location is almost impossible. So criminals fearlessly and daringly go for committing huge crimes and there is the least or no possibility of catching the criminals. How cyber crimes are committed? Cyber crime is the fastest growing way of committing serious crimes.

Top ranked criminals of crook minds explore the best use of speed and anonymity of the modern technology to carry out wide range of criminal activities. It includes theft of data and system information, identity thefts, internet frauds and deep penetration of kind of virus and botnets to do email scams. The Internet is used by the terrorists for the encouragement of radicalization which is the serious threat to international security. More often, hacker tools are available on the internet to do the crimes. The computer is utilized as the tool and target to the carry out of crimes. This is used for perpetrating the criminal activity by injecting a virus or worm which can crash entire network. Effects of cyber crime in India Cyber crime is having its terrifying effect on the information systems. Nothing is considered safe and secure on the computer in the present environment. It has become difficult to keep important information or intelligence on to the computer due to high rise of cyber crimes in the India. Information and intelligence security has become a bigger issue as the criminal are able to break the security measures to steal the important data’s. All the sensitive and secret divisions in India are observing a great challenge and big threat to keep their vital information safe and secure. In this context, the major role is being played by the computer forensic for getting computer security and law enforcement. The statistics show that Cyber Crimes are high on rise. But the bigger problem is that these Crimes are not reported in India and it is presumed that Crime does not exist and that society is safe from such Crime. There are many reason for not reporting the crimes as people don’t wish to face any police harassment and legal proceedings.

So these crimes go on and nothing comes to light and no correct statistics of cyber crimes registered. Is computer forensic controlling cyber crimes? Computer forensic has become the one of the fastest growing field for information security and law enforcement. Use of computer forensics has become essential for every criminal investigation. The expert private investigators with thorough knowledge of disk structure and commercial software are able to investigate the cybercrimes. Indian police is becoming cyber crime savvy and hiring expert private investigators that are trained in the area. Many police stations have computers which are linked to police Head Quarters. Cyber Police Stations are functioning in major Cities all over India. A series of initiatives are continuing in computer forensics and cyber law procedures are established to give the desired resulted out of it. Conclusion This is clear from the fact and the available statistics reveals that computer forensics are contributing to deal with cyber crimes and police professionals active involvement and their expertise present the remarkable result and at the same, strict cyber law with fast track courts for quick prosecution and hard decisions will take the computer forensic investigations in broad way to eradicate the cyber crimes in India.

The internet is often deemed to be like the Wild West. It is viewed as a lawless region where people can act outside the laws of the land. This is not the case. The jail sentences handed down to a number of individuals who tweeted or posted Facebook messages about the riots in England in August clearly illustrate that there laws governing what can be posted online carry real consequences. Breaking the law online is as serious as breaking the law offline. The law that the social media users broke was the Serious Crime Act 2007. Although the law was not set up to cover the use of social media, the use of social media was much lower in 2007 than it is now, the law of the land applies online to the same degree that it does off line. The Serious Crime Act 2007 states that either “intentionally encouraging or assisting an offence” or “encouraging or assisting an offence believing it will be committed” is viewed as being as serious as carrying out the act itself. So if you post a Facebook message encouraging people to riot and loot then it viewed the same in the eyes of the law as if you were rioting and looting yourself.

Defamation and Libel Online Defamation and libel laws apply to the online world in the same way that they apply to more traditional forms of print media, TV and radio. If you slander someone online without being able to prove it then you can be open to being sued for libel. You may think that something you post about an individual of company may well be lost in the billions of webpages in cyberspace. This is not the case as many individuals and companies actively police what is said about them online. Many will issue civil proceedings if they feel the statements are defamatory. The cyber smearing does not have to take place on a website you own for you to be open to being sued. If you have smeared someone using social media, message boards, forums, review sites, auction sites or email then you are open to being pursued for libel damages. You also do not need to be the originator of the rumour. If you simply repeat the allegations then you can be sued. It is very foolish to just repeat allegations without double checking that they are true.

A re-tweet of somebody else’s link to a post about a rumour can place you in line for being sued. It is also worth noting that you cannot defame someone using their nickname and thing you are safe if the nickname is well known by the public. Attempting to hide behind an anonymous username is also no protection from the law. Difference between Slander and Libel A landmark ruling in August 2008 by Mr Justice Eady drew a distinction between de Defamatory comments on internet bulletin boards and forums and those published within articles on websites. The Judge stated that those on internet bulletin boards were more likely to be slander and not libel. Currently the UK is looking at reforming its libel laws and this will take into account both online and offline forms. Tony Heywood ??

Laws and regulations are an integral part of modern society, and they have been with us for a very long time, many centuries to be exact, giving us a guide to follow and conventions to respect. Well, the Internet has also become an integral part of modern society, and it’s no wonder that many countries all around the world are trying to create Internet or Cyber laws that will govern everything we do online. One of the most important Internet laws is in fact the Internet Copyright Law, and here will be discussed how it works in some detail. The US Internet Copyright Law Everything created on the Internet after the date of April 1 1989 is protected under the American Internet Copyright Law. This can in many cases probably be difficult to understand, but the fact is that if you come from the USA, and you have created something and uploaded it on the World Wide Web is the last 20 years or so, this work of your is protected, and it cannot be stolen by anybody. However, this is true only in theory.

The Problems with the Internet Copyright Law Yes, it is true that you hold all rights to your work as the original author ever since your work has seen the light of the Internet day. Yes, it is also true that you have the right to take action if someone happens to steal your original work from the Web. However, the problem arises when there is more than one country involved in this process. Namely, if you are an American, and your work has been illegally downloaded by a person from let’s say Albania, there’s probably nothing you’ll be able to do about it. The reason for this is the fact that most countries don’t have any rules or regulations regarding the Internet, so even though you might know exactly who stole your work, in many cases you will not be able to act on this fact. Another important issue related to the Internet Copyright Law is the fact that you often cannot know who violated the law, meaning that there are ways to steal your work from the Internet without you knowing who was actually responsible.

For example, modern technology can, by tracing IP addresses, tell you where the person who stole your work was, but can never tell you exactly who this person is. The Internet Copyright Law and Plagiarism Plagiarism is another interesting subject related to the Internet Copyright Law, as in many cases it cannot be proven. For example, if you have taken a photograph and uploaded it to the Web, and if someone took this photo without crediting you as the original author, then you can make this person remove the photo, or even sue the person. However, if you have written an original article, for instance, and uploaded it on the Internet, you cannot do anything if someone read your article and steals the idea, even though plagiarism is actually defined as using someone else’s words, quotes or even ideas as their own.