October B2B Article on Immunity, Blogs and Social Network Is Here!

The B2B has published the next in my series of artlices with co-writer David Bowman.  This October article is called  ”Blogs, comments subject to libel law:  Sites walk fine line between editing, being immune from suits.”    It discusses some choices you might want to make about how you set up your site and what you choose to edit and how that might affect whether you have immunity for what others say on your blog.    Happy reading!  (Next artcle will be on privacy aspects of social networking….)

Articles by yours truely re: SOCIAL MEDIA and the LAW

The Dayton B2B recently published an article of mine on Social Media policies, whether employers should have them, what they might look like, etc.  To read it, click here.

The Dayton B2B also recently began publishing a series that David Bowman and I are doing on social media.  David writes on one side about the business implications, and I write on the other side about the legal implications.  Each month there will be a new article.  Our first article is here.

Please let me know what you think of the articles and what ideas you want to see covered in future articles.

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Not so private MySpace…

Once again, a court rules that if you put it on the internet – even if you think it is private – it may not be!
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/04/06/myspace-a-bulletin-board-not-private-room-says-california-court/

In Moreno et al. v. Hanford Sentinel, Inc., et al., F054138, slip op. (Cal. Ct. App. April 2, 2009), plaintiff published on her MySpace page information she later took down.  But in the meantime, someone published it in the newspaper.  She sued claiming she had a right of privacy.   The court rejected her argument that she expected only those she allowed to see her page to see the information.   The court held she had no right of privacy in the information.

As I’ve always said, be careful what you post!