Lawyer Khaled Abdullah Al-Muhannadi, an expert in cybersecurity cases and electronic crimes, told Qatari media that impersonation and the electronic legal personality of companies and natural persons is a punishable crime under Law No. (14) of 2014 promulgating the Anti-Cybercrime Law.
Al-Mohannadi added: "Article 11 of Law No. (14) of 2014 promulgating the Anti-Cybercrime Law provides that a penalty of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, and a fine not exceeding (100,000) one hundred thousand riyals, or one of these two penalties, shall be imposed on whoever commits one of the following acts: Uses the information network or any of the information technology means to impersonate a natural or legal person, and manages through the information network or any of the information technology means to seize for himself or for others a movable property, or a document or sign it, by fraud, or by taking a name False, or impersonating an incorrect character.
And he added that Article 13 stipulates that whoever uses the information network or any information technology means to infringe or facilitate infringement by any means shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, and a fine not exceeding (500,000) five hundred thousand riyals, or with one of these two penalties. In any form, copyright or related rights, patents, trade secrets, trademarks, trade data, trade names, geographical indications, industrial designs or designs of integrated circuits, protected by law.
Lawyer Khaled Abdullah Al-Mohannadi said: "In the recent period, the importance of the virtual world has increased with the increase in the number of its visitors and users, and its important and growing role in social media, especially electronic commerce, and advertising. legal protection over that virtual persona."
He added: We have become living in a double world that combines the real world that we live in and the virtual world parallel to it on the Internet. The Cybercrime Law has surrounded all legally criminal acts that are considered an infringement of the moral and natural electronic personality, especially intellectual property and the trade name or electronic symbol used on the World Wide Web. .
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