Social Media Attorney – A New Niche To Address A Growing Concern For Business
I have written several posts on risk management and litigation arising out of social networking or media websites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Dan Schwartz’s Employment Law Blog includes coverage of a variety of concerns with use of social media and the need for internal policies and procedures. While Dan’s blog covers employment law and this blog covers business litigation, social media ends […]
Business Blog Round Up: YouTube, Coffee Cups, Anna Nicole and Identify Theft
Ashby Jones of Wall Street Journal blog writes an intriguing post about the Google and Viacom lawsuit concerning Viacom’s claims of copyright infringement against YouTube (Google subsidiary). The post recites how Viacom employees were uploading copyrighted copies of their own videos to YouTube to help prove that YouTube was not promptly removing videos that […]
Twitter Defamation Case Gets Tossed – But Concerns Remain
In a previous post, I linked to a story about a tenant who was sued for libel after posting an allegedly disparaging comment on Twitter about her apartment. The Twitter lawsuit was a hot topic on the internet for some time. Many commentators believed it was only a matter of time before Twitter resulted in a damage award for libel. Not […]
Connecticut Defamation Law, The Internet, And Social Networking
In the Business Torts category of this blog, I recently covered the basic law in Connecticut concerning interference with business relationships. Today’s post concerns another business tort known as "defamation" and how it intersects with the growing use of social networking sites. There already have been several lawsuits for defamation arising out of use of social networking sites, such as Twitter and […]
Social Networking Lawsuits Are Big Risk to Business
I just read an excellent article posted on Law.com from the New York Law Journal on social networking and challenges to business owners and their legal counsel. The authors Christopher Boehning and Daniel Toal focus on a new emerging problems associated with electronic discovery of social networking data. The authors also point out many of the potential problems for employers […]