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- Defamation or free speech? U.S. court orders Google to hand over identity of blogger
- If ordered by a judge...releasing the identity to the plaintiff is fair and necessary, otherwise you have no recourse.I will take issue with one statement however. You wrote "After all, it?s protected free speech to say that you believe someone is disingenuous or otherwise intolerable. It?s another thing to imply...
- Tags: defamation, identity, Google Inc., What-If
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers
- Actually, this is a 6th amendment issue.Namely, the right to face your accuser in a court of law. The anonymity was stripped because the woman intended to file criminal charges.Huh?The blogger was intending to sue the celebrity?The difference between free speech and defamationWhy do people think they can say ANYTHING...
- Tags: First Amendment, defamation, perpetrator
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers
- Photo posted on 'Skanks of NYC' blog Yesterday I wrote that a Manhattan federal judge has ordered Google to tell supermodel Liskula Cohen the identity of the blogger behind the "Skanks of NYC" blog, which brands Cohen "a psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her...
- Tags: Defamation, First Amendment, Cahill, Courts, D.C. Case, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Google reveals identify of Cohen 'skank' blogger
- Welcome to the Internet only AOL ex/users give real info.Welcome to the internet everyone. It is amazing how many dummies give out real information to services that should not be given real information. This is a product of AOL where dummies who shouldn't have been on the internet got onto...
- Tags: Blogging, INTERNET, Cohen, blogger, defamation, real name, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-19
- Company sues for defamation over tweet
- Company sues for defamation over tweetIn cases like it shouldn't stay 'between you and them'Because it is usually a systemic problem when things like this come up. I would like to believe that companies 'do the right thing', however I have had enough experience TO THE BLEEPING CONTRARY that I...
- Tags: defamation, tweet
- Discussion threads 2009-07-28
- Company sues for defamation over tweet
- So Amanda Bonnen tweeted about her apartment, rented from Horizon Realty Group. She said: Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment is bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it's okay. That made the realty company really mad. So they sued...
- Tags: Defamation, Apartment, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Legalists: Google Case Precedent for Challenging Privacy
- Yesterday, Google released the name of an anonymous blogger engaged in a defamation case in Israel. The case is significant on a number of accounts not the least of which is because it may help loosen privacy restrictions in the US. You can...
- Tags: Google Inc., Defamation, TechCrunch, Privacy, Israel, David Mirchin, Investment, Security, Finance, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- Chris Pirillo is socialsquatted; does the law care?
- Chris Pirillo is on Pownce at pownce.com/chrispirillo, and has 69 friends. Or wait, that's not Chris. I can scarcely catalog the related legal considerations, which include:Can Chris stop someone from using his name and likeness without his consent? Possibly, under right of publicity laws, but the ones...
- Tags: Trademark, Tags, Social networking, Live Web, Identity, Free speech, Defamation
- Blog posts 2007-07-28
- Defamation suit tests online anonymity
- Defamation suit tests online anonymityThe little town of McAlester OK istrying to test the boundries of Internet free speech.http://www.mcalesternews.com/local/local_story_167184837.htmlThe Genie in the BottleUnfortunately this seems to be like a Genie in a bottle thing. Just like the accusation of Sexual Harrassment is often enough to get someone removed, replaced...
- Tags: defamation
- Discussion threads 2007-06-18
- If reputation is money in the bank, who owns the PIN?
- As evidenced by the many lawsuits against Google concerning PageRank or other search result read reputational slippage, the notion that you own your digital reputation — even if it is at bottom a collaborative work that begins with your actions, but thereafter depends on the reactions of others — has...
- Tags: Attention, Copyright, Defamation, Lawsuits, Patent, Privacy, Trademark, Trust
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Blogging codes of conduct: consensus still seems unlikely
- My thoughts about consensus on a blogging code of conduct are unchanged: consensus is unlikely, but the discussion is useful. Here are some comments I sent this morning to an editor at Der Spiegel Online (is it just me, or is the tenor of these questions in keeping...
- Tags: Voice, Trust, Free speech, Live Web, Defamation, Collaboration, Blogging, Attention, Anonymity
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Podcast on the law of business communities
- The conference call Mike Madison and I recorded earlier this week in anticipation of our session at Community 2.0 more here and here is now available as part of the Bag and Baggage Podcast or from the Future of Communities blog. We talked about: Defining community and loosely-joined...
- Tags: Attention, Blogging, Collaboration, Compliance, Conferences, Copyright, Defamation, DMCA, Free speech, Identity, Licenses, MGM v. Grokster, Social networking, Social news, Trademark, User generated content, Virtual worlds, Voice
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Courts continue to immunize community sites under CDA Section 230, but what about the Live Web?
- Hard on the heels of a Texas district courts recent decision to dismiss claims against MySpace, Howard Bashman spotted a recent Section 230 decision out of the First Circuit that continues in this vein, and emphasizes the clear judicial trend of applying Section 230s protections to Web sites acting as...
- Tags: User generated content, Mashups, Defamation, Podcasting, Live Web, Free speech, Copyright, Blogging, Anonymity
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- California Supreme Court says individuals not liable for defamatory online third party acts
- The California Supreme Courts opinion in Barrett v. Rosenthal issued today, and, as was widely anticipated, the Court reversed the appellate decision that was under review. Although the case involved a newsgroup posting, todays decision is nevertheless excellent news for bloggers, and brings California law in line with that...
- Tags: Blogging, Podcasting, User generated content, Video, Defamation
- Blog posts 2006-11-20
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- Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant
- Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant. According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant is not meant to represent statements of fact...
- Tags: Quadrant, Analyst, Vendor, Gartner Inc., Vinnie, MQ, Blogging, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Internet, Finance, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- When HIPAA and Twitter collide: Can you blab away your privacy rights?
- Absolutely notThe most the hospital should do is cite HIPAA and promise a private resolution. That is all they need to do in public. If they do resolve the problem to satisfaction, most people who are willing to complain about a health problem in public would acknowledge that in public....
- Tags: Regulatory compliance, HEALTHCARE, Regulations, Twitter Inc., hospital, HIPAA, patient
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- Amazon makes up for '1984' snafu but the chapter isn't over
- Uh huh...Yet another reason to buy hard copy. Write your notes in it. And have to worry neither about it getting electronically "pulled" from you, nor about "the committee" taking stock of the type of annotations you have written they may be quite politically incorrect!How ironic that this...
- Tags: Storage, Amazon.com Inc., snafu
- Discussion threads 2009-09-04
- 'Skank' blogger talks, sues Google for $15m
- Now the world knows: the "skanks of NYC" blogger is one Rosemary Port, a 27-year-old student at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and she is one pissed-off young lady. She not only has strong words for model Liskula Cohen, whose legal action outed her as the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Duty, Lawyer, Port, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
- News to know: Apple; Salesforce.com; CRM; Microsoft; PayPal
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Apple's future TV: Can Web-based apps replace "channels," kill cable? DOJ gives blessing to Oracle-Sun, awaiting EC...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., PayPal, CRM, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- Defamation or free speech? U.S. court orders Google to hand over identity of blogger
- Should your Internet anonymity be pulled back if you call someone a "psychotic, lying, whoring...skank" online? That's what Liskula Cohen, a 37-year-old fashion model, was called by an anonymous blogger. by Andrew Nusca
- Tags: Google Inc., Identity, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
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