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Defamation
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Technology Law Source
Do you know what your employees are posting while they’re at work?
Our colleagues at Employer Law Report posted about an interesting case in which FedEx was sued because one of its employees used the company’s internet connection to post allegedly defamatory…
Employer Law Report
Court holds employers not liable for employee defamatory online speech made using employer computers. Plaintiffs can’t take the money and run!
There seems to be a news story every day detailing employee misuse of social media. In fact, in a recent survey released by Proskauer Rose LLP, more than 70 percent…
Media Law Prof Blog
Judge Rules Out Defamation Lawsuit Against NBC
A Florida trial court judge has granted NBC's motion to dismiss in a defamation lawsuit George Zimmerman filed against the network nearly two years ago, holding that Mr. Zimmerman is…
Media Law Prof Blog
Online Harassment, Defamation, and Hateful Speech and Legal Remedies
Alice E. Marwick, Fordham University, Communication and Media Studies; McGannon Center, and Ross W. Miller, Fordham University School of Law, have published Online Harassment, Defamation, and Hateful Speech: A Primer of…
International Law Prof Blog
Libel Tourism
Professor Mark Wojcik of The John Marshall Law School will give a lecture on "Libel Tourism" at the University of Denver on Tuesday, August 26, 2014.
Global Media and Communications Watch
UK: Parliamentary Privilege (Defamation) Bill introduced to the Lords – waving goodbye to waiver?
By Ben Gaston, Fraser Galloway
On 9 June 2014 – in an attempt to restore certainty to the ancient doctrine of parliamentary privilege – the Parliamentary Privilege (Defamation) Bill (the "Bill") was introduced in the…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Sixth Circuit Reinforces CDA Immunity – Reverses Lower Court in Jones v. Dirty World
On June 16th, 2014, the Sixth Circuit reversed the lower court’s holding that the gossip site, TheDirty.com, was responsible for its users’ defamatory posts and could not rely on immunity…
TortsProf Blog
Perry & Zarsky on Liability for Online Anonymous Speech
Ronen Perry & Tal Zarsky (Haifa) have posted to SSRN Liability for Online Anonymous Speech: Comparative and Economic Analyses. The abstract provides:This is a pre-edited draft of of an article…
Tilting the Scales
Online Reputation Protection and Repair
Arriving at his warehouse last week Knott Faire, owner of Faire Carpet Cleaning, discovered yet another complaining critique posted on WELP: "Lots of hype, a mediocre cleaning and a hassle…
Media Law Prof Blog
Truth, Truthfulness, Defamation, and the Civil and Common Law
Eric Descheemaeker, University of Edinburgh School of Law, is publishing Truth and Truthfulness in the Law of Defamation in Les apparences en droit civil (Lionel Smith ed.; Montreal, 2014). Here…