JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE STUDIES ON ISLAMIC AND WESTERN LAW
Year:2019 | Volume:5 | Issue:4 (18) |Papers Count:7

Copyright misuse is an issue the ignorance of which and the absence of a law capable to deal with it can result in the vast misuses in the field of intellectual property in the future. The laws and regulations relating to intellectual property have not been paid attention appropriately in Iran. As an example, a reference can be made to the absence of any law as regards copyright misuse. Copyright misuse here means claiming copyright with respect to works that have entered the public domain. This article deals with the concept of copyright misuse, its examples, disadvantages of such a misuse, the ways for countering this phenomenon including imposing civil and criminal liability on and prosecuting the misuser by private and public individuals and additionally administrative measures to combat it. Consequently, the article concludes that the existing laws are not sufficient for addressing the problems resulting from such a phenomenon and the enactment of a new and comprehensive law in this respect or amendment of the existing laws being able to answer the problems raised from copyright misuse is necessary.

Protecting the prosperity of merchants is a sort of support for a country's economy and this protection is of more significance when a trader is engaged in trading in a rented place, because the accumulation of defending the tenant's prosperity and landlord absolute ownership is challenging. In Iranian law, unlike France, the prosperity of a tenant is not protected independently and only a tenant who has the right to acquire or establish goodwill can redeem his business boom, and the prosperity of the tenants who lack the right to own or establish goodwill, even by having a good reputation, is not protected. But in French law, business prosperity is a property that can be bought, sold, rented, and mortgaged. This article seeks to prove that the basis of legal protection of rights such as the right to advance the business prosperity has existed in Islamic law before law of the west. Through a descriptive and interpretive method, it is attempted that while describing the procedure of protecting the prosperity of the tenant in Iranian and French laws and explaining the necessity of protecting this financial right in Islamic jurisprudence, the theory based on which it is possible to protect the prosperity of the tenant independently be presented; a theory in accordance with which if the landlord or the new tenant benefits from the former tenant’ s business prosperity, the former tenant is entitled to demand recompense for his financial right.

The habitat and the social environment are of the most important factors influencing the person's mood and behavior and, in the case of association with other conditions, can lead the person to crime or could be useful in preventing the crime. Kathleen, Emile Durkheim and Enrico Ferry are among the thinkers who believe that habitat and social environment, if correlated with some factors, could result in crime. Islamic teachings are not indifferent to this issue, which means that by dividing the social environment into the physical and environmental habitat, they examine the relationship between it and the crime, and in this regard, have recommended encouraging living in some areas and avoiding others. These factors are divided into two categories: macro and minor ones. Some of these factors are general and some are not. The present paper, through a conceptual analysis method, examines the Islamic teachings and proves the impact of physical and environmental habitat on the crime.

There is a question regarding violating contractual obligations: whether the avoidance of the contract is acceptable as a remedy? And if the answer is positive, does the court play a role in applying the avoidance or promisee can abolish it by himself? Also is judicial enforcement to specific performance the prerequisite of the avoidance or both of them are in the same level? This research, through a descriptiveanalytic and also comparative method, has studied this issue in Iranian and Iraqi law (as two members of Islamic legal system) and the 1980 Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and French Law (as examples of the western legal system) as well. The studies demonstrate that the possibility of avoidance is accepted in all of these legal regimes, however, there are some differences in the scope of avoidance and interference of the court in it and also horizontal or vertical relation of the abolition with enforcing the promisor to specific performance. In Iranian law, in principle, judicial enforcement of the promisor to specific performance is the prerequisite of the emergence of avoidance while in Iraqi law, the Convention and French law enforcing to specific performance and the avoidance are in the same level. In Iraqi law avoidance is performed through the intervention of the court but in the Convention, French law and Iranian law avoidance is possible unilaterally and without recourse to the court; nevertheless there are some differences among these legal systems in details.

Surveying the sources of Islamic law clarifies that the basis of criminalization and the punishment of theft and fraud is to protect the believer's and non-believer's property against the abduction or possession without permission by others and the principle of respect is the basis of this subject. Undoubtedly, however, no reference is made to internet type of these crimes in the sources of Islamic law. Therefore, this article by means of examining the different aspects of the aforementioned internet crimes, seeks to determine that how much internet crimes are compatible with Islamic law, and how Islamic law's resources can be used in illustrating and adapting the subject in modern criminal law. The findings of this study indicate that the lack of reference to internet theft and fraud in Islamic law does not authorize non-criminalizing of these crimes in current laws. Accordingly, the lawmaker, through referring to foundations of Islamic law that has banned and determined punishment for fraudulent, deceptive, and criminal offenses for gaining wealth by illegitimate ways, has placed internet crimes under discretionary (ta'zeeri) crimes. So that it would be possible to prevent immunity from these crimes and the orders of Islam based on which these crimes are forbidden would be regarded in the law. The present article, through a descriptive-analytic method and in order to ascertain the possibility of the Islamic law being compatible with Internet theft and fraud, attempts to conduct a comparative study of Islamic law sources approved by the Imamiyah and Sunni jurisconsults with internal regulations.

Representation is a fundamental right that represents the right to sovereignty and is regarded as an indispensable phenomenon from people so that all parts of the population including minority and majority can choose representatives to determine their own interests. Ensuring the fundamental rights of minorities requires recognition of their effective representation in a genuine and effective representation system. A desirable representation system must actually be able to reflect the political will of the minority along with the majority of the people; otherwise, the right to sovereignty of the people in determining their own destiny lacks an effective guarantee. One of the characteristics of a right-based and democratic state in the modern state has been the issue of the rights of minorities and securing and ensuring their rights in various fields in a maximum level which would only be achieved through the recognition of the right of representation for minorities. Despite the importance of this fundamental right, international instruments have paid attention to it in a highly restricted way that the democratic concept of representation is not defined and prescribed decisively in the most significant international instruments including 1966 Covenants. In the Islamic Republic of Iran, minorities are considered citizens of the Islamic society, which assigns them the same political status as of the majority of the society and therefore, similar to other citizens, the right to represent of minorities – which is based on right to self-determination and right to equality-has been emphasized and guaranteed in Principle 64 of the Constitution. The Islamic Republic of Iran's Constitution's approach toward minorities, with the belief in common human value and dignity and inviting convergence of followers of different religions around the commonalities, has provided a logical and reasonable model for coexistence and interaction between the minority and the majority.

In Islam, a man through a permanent marriage is obliged to provide his wife's alimony. The jurisprudential basis for the necessity of alimony is the verses (ayahs) and narrations and its legal foundation is Article 1106 of the Civil Code. The tenet of the necessity of alimony is based on consensus (Ijmā ), but there is disagreement upon the nature of alimony regarding being as acquisition or enjoyment among Islamic jurisconsults. In Iran there is no rule whether alimony is acquisition or enjoyment by nature. Attributing acquisition of alimony to wife provides her with powers in terms of expending and disposing of the alimony that are not existed or at least are much less or restricted in enjoyment. There is no disagreement among Islamic jurisconsults as to the enjoyment nature of possessions such as house or servant using of which does not fade the original and acquisition nature of those that fade by utilizing. The only case upon which Islamic jurisconsults are not agreed is possessions such as clothing, in which case the certain tradition and custom could be the basis of judgment and settlement of the dispute between the spouses. In English law, there is a similar alimony during a marital life as well, but not as much broad and precise as that of Iran and Islam. This article, through a descriptive-analytic method, aims to specify the ideas of Islamic jurisconsults on the nature of alimony regarding being acquisition or enjoyment and express similarities and differences between Iranian and English Law.