Abstract

Cybercrime has recently spread as a new crime, as a result of the increased use of the Internet worldwide, where the Internet has become the mainstay of the information age, and the most widespread means of transmitting and exchanging information, data, sources and behaviors. Crime in general and digital publishing in particular is the negative face of the crime of sharing and transmitting information through social networking sites, other than the positive aspect of spreading culture, knowledge and social networking, and has created a legal problem in punitive legislation that has not been confined to a special law. For electronic publishing offences, as in the Iraqi penal system, which requires the intervention of the judiciary to adapt the penal texts and find practical solution to conflicts of jurisdictions between the courts and determine the competent court in the consideration of such crimes.