Blogger Sued for Comments on Blog
am 28.08.2005 von http://lawjustice.blogspot.comThe blog SEObook, a blog offering search engine optimization tips and news, has been sued for content in comments left on his blog.While, in principle, it seems logical that a blogger is responsible for his own texts, it would be surprising that a blogger is also responsable for comments left on his blog by a third party. Is a blogger a publisher/editor? What can be reasonably expected from him ? Can the same be expected from a professional blogger as from a mere amateur ?Ill write more on this topic in the near future.Meanwhile, here follow some quick links about the legal rules applicable to bloggers in some specific jurisdictions. So they are not necessarily applicable to your own blog: given the internet context, this depends on the applicable law, this means on private international law.USA:Electronic Frontier Foundation: Legal Guide for BloggersEFF is a US organization and this guide is based on US law !Blogger Faces Lawsuit OverComments Posted by Readers, Wall Street Journal online 31/08/05 with reference to a key decision of 2003 of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which ruled that the operator of a Web site can post material from others without liability for the content; trade-secrets and intellectual property. Also reference to a case against ThinkSecret.com currently pending in Superior Court in Santa Clara, Calif.Belgium:Jos Dumortier, Zijn er regels over Blogs? Trends Business ICT, 2005, mei, p. 20 (Are there rules about blogs ? ; in …
Lawsuits against bloggers
Law & Justice / The Media Law Resource Center has compiled this list of legal actions taken against bloggers for libel and other alleged conduct. This list includes only cases based on content of blogs, which are created by and feature comments from an individual or…
Inaccurate or Defamatory Statements on Blogs
Law & Justice / Nathan Burke at lawfirmblogging.com has a post about inaccurate/defamatory statements on blogs. The question he asks is: if you (or a client you represent) post inaccurate statements in a blog, what is the precedent for responsibility? Nathan gives…
Hamburg Court: Online Publisher is Liable for Reader Comments. Also for Comments on Blogs?
Law & Justice / The first-instance district court of Hamburg has issued a temporary restraining order preventing an on line publisher Heise Zeitschriften Verlag from publishing reader comments on a forum. Those comments called on others to overload a third party’…
Blogs and Legal Liability
Handakte WebLAWg / As news media adopt blogging as an accepted and professional means for reporting the news, they grapple with ethics and editorial policies. As one expert puts it, “there’s a balance between editing for liability and preserving the spontan…
What Legal Rules Are Applicable to Blogs?
Law & Justice / Together with Wim Schreurs I have written an article about blogging and the legal rules applicable to blogs. We provide a short overview of legal blogs (“blawgs”) in Flanders and Wallonia (Belgium), the Netherlands, France, Germany and the USA. W…
Fighting for Bloggers’ Rights
Rechtblog / If you’re a blogger, this website is for you. EFF’s goal is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to blog freely with the knowledge that your l…
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