1. Ethics of the Internet
1.Intellectual property protection:
2. Privacy:
It is difficult to ensure that the attack on
privacy in the Internet, and to convince the
public that they are not a secure network to
penetrate the user's privacy.
2. 3. Protect the network from pollution: some
people misuse the freedom of publication on
the internet sites to serve bad sexual
pornography, or incitement to violence, and
implant the spirit of hatred among the
people, or encourage suicide, and therefore
an ethical action and legal deterrent should
be taken to protect the network from these
behaviors.
3. 4. Strengthen confidence in the Internet: some
locations available in the network lack
confidence in the validity or accuracy of the
information, which prevents the users from
citation.
4. 5. Widening the knowledge gap:
the problem emerged sharply in recent times
between rich countries in sources of
information and poor countries in this aspect.
5. 6. Ethical transgressions:
You must protect the network from some
common ethical transgressions, including the
following:
Theft: caused from penetrating the local
system or forcing up the process forged
through the network.
6. Terrorism and espionage-mail: is one of the
ethical problems faced by the information
society in the current era.
Data manipulation: this problem may occur
from some workers in the institution where
the information changed for several
considerations.
7. Phenomenon of internet addiction: because
of the desire to make more friends , exchange
views with the new people, and escape from
reality.
8. Policy of digitization projects
Digitization process means converting data to
electronic format for processing by computer,
and the resulting need for a policy on the
following aspects:
9. Copyright :
Laws of copyrights should be updated to fit in
with the digital world , facing the issues and
problems, and should preserve the rights of
authors and publishers and literary material.
10. Economic rights reserve to the author the right
to physical exploitation of his work. And
moral rights reserve for the author the right
not to distort his work, or modify it.
11. The material and moral rights of authors have
become violated in light of the use of the
internet. Despite the achieved of the
advantages of electronic publishing, on the
other hand, it made several disadvantages
such as ease of copying digital materials,
academic theft, espionage , cyber terrorism,
fraud, and plagiarism. Laws should fit the
requirements of digital sources.
12. Another difficulty facing the protection of
copyright is the lack of legal deposit system,
forcing the creator of digital information to
deposit copies of their work at the body
responsible for legal deposit in the country,
which leads to the difficulty of keeping the
national heritage.
13. Against this problem resorted copyright holders
to find multiple methods to restrict access,
which deprived the user from certain rights
and exemptions enjoyed by under the laws of
copyright protection. The previous, such as
exceptions to use the fair use taken vanish
under the application of conventions, and the
use of digital rights.
14. Academic thefts in the electronic
environment
Appeared in cyberspace a new term is the electronic
crimes, or CYBERCRIMES, including thefts,
academic, dissemination of vice, disable the
devices, the destruction of sites, data manipulation,
penetration of e-mail, use copies of original
programs, copyrighted, the distribution of viruses,
published, copy-protected programs, and access to
the files, as well as others.
15. Robbery means hefting ideas of others on the
internet of articles, research and scientific
studies without reference to the original
source. This differs from the transport and
the quote which is legitimate right for all.
Within the scope of theft, plagiarism, fraud
cheating, piracy, and the like methods of
attack on the ideas of others.
16. Internet helped the emergence of the problem
of computer crimes or thefts, particularly the
online piracy, which impact on the ethics of
the information society. Laws in this area not
clear as a result of the complexity of internet
crime.
17. Publishing on the internet is available to all,
contributing to the violation of the rights of
authors, which calls for laws to address this
contemporary phenomenon. There are
Masters and PhD theses were stolen. Also
there are foreign books and articles have
been translated in full text from the internet.
18. What increases the size of the problem is that
the law does not follow the technical
developments. Internet crimes are
characterized by ambiguity, where it is
difficult to prove and investigate, as is the
case in traditional crimes.
19. One can not identify the location of the
offender on the internet, and the mental
image of the criminal of the Internet is often
the image of the hero and so smart, it is not
an admirable picture of the criminal who
should be prosecuted.
20. There are many terms that are used as an
expression of the reciprocal of the forms of
cybercrime, including:
HIGH-TICK CRIME
E-CRIME
COMPUTER CRIME
INFORMATICS CRIME
DIGITAL CRIME
COMPUTER ABUSE
21. TURNITIN company has developed a program
capable of detecting cases of theft, fraud, and
plagiarism, where theft is discovered by
downloading the article, and compare it with
the billions of pages available on the internet.
22. Another program helps address the academic
thefts called WORDCHECK, and the site
COPYSCAPE on the internet assists in the
discovery of the stolen articles.
23. With respect to the laws addressing the theft of
electronic crimes, it is mainly THE DIGITAL
MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT (DMCA) of
1998 in the United States of America, is
special legislation covering material available
online. As some European countries enacted
laws on cyber crime, and the establishment of
a special section to combat these crimes.
24. The Arab initiatives in this regard are weak. The
Arab gate for libraries and information the
design of a site that helps to discover the
stolen research and studies in the area
of interest. It was discovered that some of the
articles published in CYBRARIANS JOURNAL
have been published in other sites.
25. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia became a member
of the Organization of Intellectual Property
Rights (WIPO) in 1982. There are in the
Kingdom three sides responsible for the
protection of intellectual property rights. For
publishing, the Ministry of Information, for
the trademark rights the Ministry of
Commerce, and for tracking of human
inventions and innovations King Abdulaziz
City for Science and Technology.
26. In the Kingdom certain laws that govern use of
the Internet were issued, including the Anti-
Crime Act, which was issued in 1428 for trying
to criminalize abuse and infringement on the
rights of others, to help achieve information
security, and the protection of public morals.