Bloggers' Legal Defense Society

2 Dec 2004

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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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.

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