Bloggers' Legal Defense Society

December 2, 2004

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Jeff's been doing some more thinking about how to protect bloggers from frivilous lawsuits from corporations. (Where are the tort reform extremists when it's corporations that are abusing the legal system?) I don't know if I agree 100% with his suggestion, but I like the motivation behind it and the attempt at creating a solution.

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Blogs fought the law... from Sample the Web on December 3, 2004 5:14 AM

First read this. What happens if every single one of us bloggers blogs the exact same thing which Kottke did? Can they sue us all? Can we sue them back?UPDATE: Here's some better responses to this type of issue for bloggers than my knee-jerk response... Read More

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Honestly, I always thought that cutting and pasting copyrighted information to open it for discussion-which is the way the blogosphere works, especially blogs on political topics- is a moving target for lawsuits.
I agree about the tort law reform hypocricy of large corporations.
As for Kotte, it is a "high profile" matter so a lot of white shoe law firms may actually compete for pro bono rights.

Shareen | December 2, 2004 10:05 PM | Reply

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