Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Blogger Rights Legal Guide

Boing Boing has posted "EFF legal guide for bloggers."

EFF has released a long, comprehensive, accessible guide to the law and blogging, aimed at bloggers who are worried about protecting their sources' anonymity, about libel, about copyright and trademark infringement claims, and all the other legal risks that might stop a blogger from saying her piece.
From the EFF site:
To be clear, this guide isn't a substitute for, nor does it constitute, legal advice. Only an attorney who knows the details of your particular situation can provide the kind of advice you need if you're being threatened with a lawsuit. The goal here 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 legitimate speech is protected.
In their guilde, the EFF has covered Blogger Legal Liability Issues (including Liability, Intellectual Property, Defamation, Section 230 Protections, and Privacy), Bloggers As Journalists (including Reporter's Privilege and Media Access), and Other Legal Issues for Bloggers (including Election Law and Labor Law).

In related information, Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit has posted Rebecca Mackinnon's thoughts on free speech, blogging, China and Microsoft. And that election commissioner Brad Smith is "not too encouraging regarding the future of free speech under existing election laws."

Keeping posting everyone!

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