Rami Olwan

The music industry has been facing many problems lately especially those related to digital technology and the internet.
Lawrence Lessig, a leading scholar in cyberspace law argues that copyright law needs to be adaptive to the current situation. His provocative ideas have found application with the establishment of the creative commons organization.

The paper tries to give a better understanding of the creative commons movement and its relevance to the music industry. The paper will give an introduction to creative commons organizations, and the different licenses it offers especially those related to music. The main purpose of the research is to asses to what extent creative commons model offers better solutions and opportunities situated to the needs of the music industry. I will conclude the paper by providing my own assessment of the model and the movement in general.

The purpose of the paper is to examine why we need criminal sanctions to deal with domain name disputes particularly in the case of typosquatting? Are the civil liabilities in the Anti Cyber Protection Act (ACPA) not enough to combat typosquatting? Do we need the Truth of Domain Name Act (TDNA)?

My paper is divided into five parts, in part; I will give a general introduction on domain names disputes. In part II, I will define typosquatting and examine its importance. In part III, I will consider the TDNA and then in part IV the case of Zuccarini.

In part V, I will consider the argument with and against having criminal sanctions to deal with typosquatting. My preliminary examination will be the TDNA and the sanctions it provides for typosquatting and to what extent they are effective enough in deterring children pornography over the internet. At the end of the paper, I will provide my own overall assessment and conclusion of the matter.