Comments on: Community Sites & Legal Responsibilities

By: Blogsavvy: Professional Blog Consultant - Consulting for blogging in business, education, the community, activism and for money

Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:34:25 +0000

[...] Over at incorporated subversion I’ve just put up a piece on community sites and legal responsibilities, especially in terms of blogs. [...]

By: lynsey

lynsey — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:31:17 +0000

Good questions James. While you’re digging it over, find out what is the story for when a posting is innocent enough, but some comments posted by readers are not.

My personal opinion in this case is the provider has about the same status as the paper manufacturer for words in books, but the editor ie the blog author is entirely in the firing line if they continue to leave the material on view.

My 2 cents worth. Give Irf at planetirf a nudge. He’s got the lawyer thing going on and he understands, first hand, blogging issues.

By: Corporate Engagement

Corporate Engagement — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:54:06 +0000

Who is legally reponsible for the content of community sites…

James Farmer at incorporated subversion raises some real issues about community sites and where the responsibility lies, he concludes: Essentially my thoughts are that if the site: -Makes fully clear that users are responsible for their own content -Fr…