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- 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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- Are feds involved in bid to undo state open govt law?
- Did you know that there are more than 40 so-called Fusion Centers across the U.S.? A Fusion Center is a top-secret site where federal and state officials meet to share, analyze and redistribute information on "all hazards, all threats," as Ars Technica explains. Here's a map of...
- Tags: Ars Technica, EPIC, Law, Fusion Center, Government, Homeland Security, Federal Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- JuicyCampus, free speech, and personal responsibility
- Well the latest fad is upon us, and after a bit of a hiatus, I just had to write ... It is called JuicyCampus (see http://juicycampus.com/, if you must) and it certainly brings out the worst in us. Let's face it, people love to...
- Tags: Web, Action, JuicyCampus, Predator, Channel Management, Blogging, Marketing, Internet, Marc Wagner
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Time to out drug test reviewers?
- Pfizer is suing the New England Journal of Medicine, aiming to learn the names of anonymous reviewers who conducted peer reviews on its pain relief drug Celebrex. Donald Kennedy, outgoing editor of Science Magazine right, says this is a direct threat to all science. Anonymity...
- Tags: Pfizer Inc., Fact, Anonymity, Reviewers, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Free speech, sophomoric pranks, or criminal offense?
- Free speech, sophomoric pranks, or criminal offense?False statements can be VERY harmful...especially if expressed by a popular student or someone perceived as "honest." I put honest in quotes because I've met many people who are very assertive not aggressive in their statements, yet have rarely told the truth or the...
- Tags: INTERNET, Free Speech
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Free speech, sophomoric pranks, or criminal offense?
- The Christian Science Monitor ran an interesting piece Monday on increasingly severe penalties for online harassment and defamation of school staff by students. As the article points out, students have harassed teachers since kids had teachers to harass. However, administrators and teachers are concerned about the highly public...
- Tags: North Carolina, Teacher, Harassment, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- JuicyCampus.com+pushing+the+limits+of+free+speech%3F
- JuicyCampus.com+pushing+the+limits+of+free+speech%3FMight be better......to confront the racists, anti-semites, etc, head on... by refuting them instead of by trying to drive them off campus. The latter has been attempted for more than a generation and all it's succeeded in doing is driving the haters underground, and encouraging extremism by creating a...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Litigation, JuicyCampus
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- Techcentric anti-Scientology "raids" were nothing but religious bigotry
- Techcentric anti-Scientology "raids" were nothing but religious bigotrybigotrySeveral protesters wore demonic masks and held signs with phrases such as "Hubbard is the Devil" and "Honk if you hate Scientology." It had a striking resemblance to the disinformation beginnings of the German persecution of Jews or the kkk persecution of...
- Tags: Scientologists, religion, anti-Scientology, Scientology
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- California court bars unmasking of Web critic
- California court bars unmasking of Web criticWell, as long as no financial or personal harm can come froman anonymous posters claims and words (that an anonymous post isn't given any weight by those who read or hear of it because of the anonymous nature of the information given), I can...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Channel management, SECURITY, Libel, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- Google on Privacy: Hasty But Reasonable
- A recent Israeli court case has Google divulging the identity of an anonymous blogger. To find out the implications for US law we asked two US and Israeli attorneys, David Mirchin and Russell Mayer, for their opinions here's what David had to say. Russell's opinion can be found here. ...
- Tags: Poster, Google Inc., Privacy, Identity, Russell, Cahill, Case Law, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- ATT-"tend to damage" our name and you could be terminated just like that
- ATT-"tend to damage" our name and you could be terminated just like thatRon Paul is rightRon Paul's approach applies well to this situation. AT&T's policy violates the 1st Ammendment. It's pretty simple.Thanks for the warning.So why do you bother with AT&T? Forgot to mention the NSA part too. Personally I...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Workforce management, General Electric Co., CNN, Paul, Ron Paul, AT&T Corp., ATT
- Discussion threads 2007-10-01
- Google vs. Microsoft: Dueling DoubleClick testimony
- Google vs. Microsoft: Dueling DoubleClick testimonyMaybe Google made a mistake complaining aboutMicrosoft's search and crying anti-trust. As they say, pay back is a b.....straw poll?GOOG or MSFTWHo cares really?I mean its not like its going to change my life or put a buck in my pocket.All antitrust laws must...
- Tags: Google Inc., MSFT, Microsoft Corp., DoubleClick Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- Vietnam Memorial site defaced with Turkish messages
- Vietnam Memorial site defaced with Turkish messageshappened to my site about year agoThis "Turk Defacer" (that is what they/he/she calls themselves) did pretty much same thing to one of my sites. All red with the turish flag. They only said you have been hacked. They did it twice, I restored...
- Tags: Web site development, Turkish message, Vietnam Memorial site, Vietnam Memorial, Turkish
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
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