Brooklyn Law Office Blawg

Observations of a Brooklyn lawyer in the digital age

Brooklyn Law Office Blawg, New York City

Entries Tagged as 'Internet law and blogs'

Removing stolen blog content with a Takedown Notice

February 8th, 2008 · 12 Comments

You often read about blog authors who complain that some “scraper” has republished their blog content on a completely unaffiliated site without permission even when then blog owner has not released that content with an “open source” or so-called “copyleft” license. Can a blog owner easily stop such vandalism? Yes. Under United States Copyright […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Intellectual property · Internet law and blogs

Defamation in the blogosphere

December 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment

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 […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Defamation - libel and slander · Internet law and blogs · Ruminations