Category: Social Media
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Podcast: The Digital Edge 25: The #yorais mob
John Lim, Grace Chin, David Lian and Foong Cheng Leong discuss: 1. Mark Zuckerberg says that the age of privacy is over – so can Malaysians expect our status updates and Twitter feeds to be private? 2. Minister for Information, Communications, Culture and Arts Datuk Seri Rais Yatim says that Malaysians should not be too…
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BFM Podcast: The Legal Implications of Social Media: Defamation and Libel
Foong Cheng Leong, Senior Associate, Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill discusses the legal aspects of social media, focusing in particular on online defamation, admissibility of online data in courts, cybersquatting, domain disputes, and whether there should there be regulation of the Internet and social media, whether directly or indirectly. He also discusses the fine line…
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Life Online Show 16: Naughty things
Podcast interview at the Life Online Show podcast on 2 February 2011. The following topics were discussed with host John Lim, David Wang from theclickstarter.com, David Lian from Text100, journalist Niki Cheong: 1) Groupon coming into Malaysia by acquiring GroupsMore.com 2) Google establishing a bigger foothold in Malaysia with an office in KLCC. 3) The…
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Blog postings can backfire
First published on The Star Newspaper on 20 January 2011. PUTIK LADA By FOONG CHENG LEONG Social media influence has hit court proceedings, with lawyers trolling blogs and Wikipedia in search of material that can help them argue the case for their clients. LAST year brought further interesting development to social media and laws all…
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Internet Service Provider Liability Act: Do we need one?
An analysis of the potential repercussions of the proposed Internet Service Provider Liability Act. Recently, The Star reported that the Malaysian Parliament will be tabling the ISP Liability Act (”Act”). According to The Star, the Act makes internet service providers (ISPs) responsible for curbing online piracy. The ISP will be fined if they don’t take…
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Stemlife Berhad v Bristol-Myers Squibb (M) Sdn Bhd & Arachnid Sdn Bhd
First published on 10 August 2009 CIVIL SUIT NO S6-23-95-2008 (HC) Arachnid Sdn Bhd (“Arachnid”) provides web development and related services. In 2003, Bristol-Myers Squibb (M) Sdn Bhd (“Bristol-Myers”) engaged Arachnid to set up a website, www.meadjohnsonasia.com (“the website”). Arachnid thereafter also provided maintenance services for the website. The website hosts a forum known as…
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Income Tax (Deduction for Expenditure on Registration of Patent and Trade Mark) Rules 2009 [P.U. (A) 418/2009]
First published on 18 January 2010 From the year of assessment of 2010 until the year of assessment of 2014, certain companies and enterprises are able to claim tax deduction for fees or payments made to register patents and/or to register trade marks under the Malaysian Patents Act 1983 and Malaysian Trade Marks Act 1976…
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Tweet at your own risk
Published in The Star Newspaper on 21 January 2010 The explosion in Internet-based social networking – fuelled by ease of DIY publishing – is throwing up new challenges, business and legal, to the online community. THE year 2009 marked an important year for social media networking. It brought change to politics, society and business. Many…
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Tweet below the law
Featured in The Star Newspaper on 8 August 2010 Sunday August 8, 2010 Tweet below the law By JOSEPH LOH sunday@thestar.com.my Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have allowed people to easily let others know what is on their minds. But users should be careful with what they post because the laws of…
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Minimising the risks in blogging
Published in The Star Newspaper on 8 January 2009. BLOGGING has become the new way of life of Malaysians. It is without doubt a new form of media where a large number of the public refer to these days in addition to the mainstream media. With this comes responsibility. It is settled that bloggers are…