The Legal Risks of Blogging

Pretty good post over at one of my regular reads, The Blog Herald, about the legal risks that bloggers face these days.

The problem is that, while journalists have long studied media law as part of their education and training, most bloggers have not and are both unaware of their rights and the gray areas they have to avoid. Likewise, many people who feel that they were wronged may not understand the rights a blogger has and that they, the allegedly infringed, have no recourse.

The threat of legal action is often times enough "to scare many bloggers into changing the way they write, removing content or otherwise altering their site."

Not sure where a commenter implying that he's going to phone in a bomb threat to the New York Times falls into the grand scheme of things.

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