By Mindy McAdams
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At the workshop I led on Saturday (about journalist blogs), someone raised a question about libel while we were discussing non-editing of blogs. I did a few searches and found some interesting information.
According to the Citizen Media Law Project, at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the blogger cannot be held responsible for comments […]
The publisher of a popular news Web site (Malaysia Today) was held by Malaysian police and questioned for eight hours yesterday, then released (brief report and comments here).
At issue: A claim that Raja Petra Kamarudin, editor of the Web site, is responsible for “postings and articles … [that] were disrespectful to the King and Islam, […]
This has been much covered already (see the Daily Koz, for example), but for the record, here is the News.com report from May 26.
The appeals court pointedly took issue with Apple’s argument that the Web sites were not legitimate journalistic enterprises. Apple had claimed that the sites were engaged not in “legitimate journalism or news” […]
There’s a new case study for how blogs work — particularly how the blogosphere support network can raise one blog’s visibility.
A man in Maine, at the far northeastern corner of the U.S., writes a blog called Maine Web Report. His name is Lance Dutson. The blog was not at all well-known before this series of […]
The Podcasting Legal Guide from Creative Commons provides “a general roadmap of some of the legal issues specific to podcasting.”
When creating your own podcast, it is important to make sure all necessary rights and permissions are secured for the material included in your podcasts. This is relatively easy if you create all of the material […]
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