Never steal or copy someone’s blog posts, images or anything else that does not belong to you unless you want to be sued for copyright infringement and face severe legal consequences. What should you do when someone copies your work?
You could be sued for defamation now! Read this recent case of a blogger being sued for more than $15,000 defamation damages in Florida! The takeaway is what you publish must be a false statement for it to defame someone. 5. Blog Disclaimers You must have seen disclaimers everywhere. See my legal disclaimer above as an example.
The legal side of blogging is often neglected because it is not fun and most bloggers give up trying to understand it. This is the reason I’ve put together this legal guide for bloggers to help you become compliant with the law and stay out of legal trouble.
At that point, the lawyer can’t help you much because you failed to set up your online business the right way from the beginning. Your terms and conditions, also known as Terms of Use and Terms of Service are your website rules – what you allow and don’t allow on your blog.
The good news for political bloggers is prominent public officials have a much tougher time proving defamation because they have to demonstrate "malice" in the blogger's intent or that the blogger acted in reckless disregard for the truth. The definition of a public official varies state to state too.
Therefore, without permission from a copyright holder, if you copy a protected work and post it on your blog, you may be infringing someone's copyright and may be exposed to legal liability.
As a result, many lawyers are turning to blogging and social media writing to do this. In fact, roughly 1 in 4 law firms today maintain a blog, while nearly 3 in 4 attorneys have a professional presence on social media.
John Doe Lawsuit Example John Doe lawsuits are also used when an anonymous poster creates a defamatory YouTube video, website, or defamatory commentary on your social media page. Since you don't know the identity of the person who wrote the review, you can file a John Doe lawsuit.
Five steps every blogger should take to get legit legallyChoose a great blog name (Bonus: Protect it with a trademark registration) ... Use the right website documents, disclaimers, and disclosures. ... Put solid contracts in place with sponsors, collaborators, contractors, and vendors. ... Protect your blog content with copyrights.More items...
Registering your blog posts with the U.S. Copyright Office gives you legal grounds to bring a lawsuit for copyright infringement. If you're familiar with copyright basics, you know that copyright protection is automatic and your posts are YOUR property the minute you publish each post on your blog.
A legal blog's primary purpose is to attract clients. Even so, blogging on legal issues will also establish your expertise in the law. When students, civic groups, journalists, and others are looking for lawyers to speak at events, they also search the web. Your blog will help them find you.
By this reasoning, a “blog” post containing similar words of solicitation or invitation will be considered advertising. Further, regardless of specific content, a blog on an attorney or law firm's professional website will likely be found to be advertising, just as the website itself is advertising.
Blogs provide a medium for the members of the legal community to write about the current trends in law, its development, criticise the loopholes, and discuss viable solutions with a broad reader base. This is one of the most considerable advantages of blogs over journals, publications, etc.
Yes, you can sue for social media defamation. However, while it may seem natural to want to sue the social media platform for defamation, your best option is to file a defamation lawsuit against the individual poster or commenter.
The Supreme Court has held that a person may sue a website for giving out false or inaccurate personal information only if the person can show that they suffered a concrete, actual or imminent injury as a result of the publication of the information.
Contact the website displaying the defamatory content and request that the content be removed, Obtain a court order to be provided to a search engine, such as Google, and request that they remove the defamatory content's URL from their search results, and.
If you want to protect your work, you should simply send them an email and let them know that what they are doing is called copyright infringement. If you are dealing with an understanding person, then they’ll probably apologize and take the copy down.
For example, they don’t want to share their email address with an email newsletter provider because they’re afraid it will be sold to a handful of marketers.
Ticketmaster’s argument was two-fold: Ticket.com tried to pass off one of their pages as their own when they didn’t link to the home page but an interior page, making it a copyright infringement.
A great way to deal with this issue is to have very clear terms on how you will manage user-developed content. In your site’s terms of use, you should spell out a few things: 1 You are at liberty to do with the comments as you please. 2 You will not manipulate them or delete them without having a good reason to. 3 You will remove them if someone requests (this is really up to you). 4 You will require a minimum amount of information so you can avoid anonymous comments. 5 You will delete all comments if and when you expire your blog.
You will delete all comments if and when you expire your blog. If these terms are stated clearly and openly, you shouldn’t have much of a problem when it comes to the law and user-developed content.
From the perspective of a blogger, it makes more sense to link directly to the page that you are referring to than it does to link to the home page, and then hope the reader can find the information you are referring to. What’s interesting is that some people have claimed that deep linking is a form of trespassing.
It may come as a surprise to you that there are some doubts to whether deep linking is even legal. Deep linking is where you write a blog post and then link to another website in that post. However, you don’t link directly to the homepage: you link to a page buried on the site.
While this sort of defamation should shock the conscience of most people, what about other instances? A teacher could be sued if they tell someone that a fellow teacher is not good at his or her job. Teachers also cannot share information about a student's behavior or academic performance with other teachers, parents, or students. All of these actions can result in a defamation lawsuit.
Not only must teachers watch what they do, but also what they say, or in this instance, write. Teachers may not defame a student. In one Virginia lawsuit, an 8th grade teacher became irritated with a student recently diagnosed with ADHD. The teacher physically grabbed the back of the student's head (resulting in an assault and battery claim), and then wrote "FOCUS" on the student's forehead with a marker (resulting in a defamation claim). All totaled, the teacher has been sued by the student's parents for $3 million.
A teacher can also be sued for Intentional Infliction of Emotion Distress, based on their actions or their words. In Chicago, a teacher posted a photo on Facebook of a seven year old girl, mocking her hair style, and her parents sued for Intention al Infliction of Emotional Distress. In California, parents of an overweight middle school boy sued a Physical Education teacher for mocking the boy's weight, allowing others in class to mock him as well, and forcing him to participate in PE class, over the recommendation of the boy's doctor.
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If your preferential treatment for friends and family makes other employees feel like they can't receive the same promotions or treatment, you could face a lawsuit for discrimination.
It's not just the victim of the hostility who can file the lawsuit. Other employees who are affected or made uncomfortable by it could also sue.
Employees could also potentially sue you for creating a hostile work environment. That kind of claim arises from pervasive conduct that is intimidating or abusive and impacts an employee's ability to get work done. Most often, the claims are bought because of offensive jokes, sexual harassment, ridicule or insults.