2007 December 11 at Brooklyn Law Office Blawg

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Defamation in the blogosphere

2 Comments Published December 11th, 2007 in Defamation - libel and slander, Internet law and blogs, Ruminations

Are you responsible if some anonymous poster writes a comment about someone on a blog and it is defamatory? It is certainly true if you own the blog and you write a posting on the blog that you are responsible for the legal consequences of your authorship, but if a third party writes [...]

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Alex T. Roshuk is a New York State attorney. He has two law degrees from McGill University, Faculty of Law, Montreal, Canada (B.C.L./LL.B., 1997) and has been practicing law in New York City since 1998 advising businesses, individuals and not-for-profit organizations in transactional and litigation related matters. He was the first legal adviser to the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (Wikipedia) from 2003 to 2005 assisting with the organization's tax exempt application to the IRS, trademark applications, and various copyright related issues. Prior to becoming a lawyer Mr. Roshuk worked in the entertainment industry as a film editor, radio announcer, television producer and director and as an administrator and/or director of numerous not-for-profit media arts organizations in the United States and Canada. He studied electrical engineering at Princeton University in the 1970s. He currently lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn.