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June 12, 2005
Legal Guide for Bloggers
We know that many of our readers have blogs that you use for everything from keeping in touch with friends and family to highlighting problems in countries you care about that don't get much attention in mainstream media.
No matter what you use your blog for, our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (whose mission it is to keep the Internet safe and free), have put together a handy guide that answers everything you ever wanted to know about blogging from a legal standpoint--there are FAQs on what constitutes "fair use" when quoting other articles, information on how to *not* get sued for defamation, and all of the other little legalities that bloggers should know about. Best of all, the guidelines are straight forward and explain the fine points of the law in easy to understand language.
One caveat is that the guide is written from the perspective of United States laws.
If you like what you see, the EFF is trying to disseminate this information to other bloggers, so feel free to blog about it yourself. Bloggers, unite!
Posted by insideoutmag at June 12, 2005 01:10 PM