Blogger Sued For Defamation Over Comments
Blogger Aaron Wall of SEOBook is being sued by company called Traffic Power for defamation and disclosing trade secrets. From The Blog Herald:
If successful the case has the potential to cause major upheaval in the blogosphere as comments would need to be filtered in cases where there was even the slightest chance someone might sue or find the comment offensive or disagree with it.
Might be time to update the disclosure and editorial statement.
Related: As blogging grows, companies eye legal pitfalls
Is it riskier to moderate blog comments?
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August 27th, 2005 at 9:29 pm
Bank Blogging: The Risk of Allowing Comments
As banks get into the wide world of blogging (even the World Bank now has a blog), those damn lawyers threaten to ruin it for everyone. The Language Artist has an interesting post about the legal risks of blogging, with