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December 8th, 2005 · Comments Off

It’s interesting that the story on bloggers and defamation has so many comments today. One blogger told of his experience when sued for defamation

Having had a defamation complaint about a comment made on my site there’s good news and bad news. If you delete it and are willing to hand over the log details of [...]

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Tags: blogging · legal issues

Bloggers and the law

December 7th, 2005 · Comments Off

Interesting post on one of the smh blogs about bloggers and the law:
Bogs fall under the same defamation and other laws that regulate all media organisations in the country.
While US bloggers are protected by a freedom of speech clause in the US Bill of Rights, new sedition laws passed by Australian [...]

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Tags: blogging · legal issues