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EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers
URL: http://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal

Description:
The goal of this site is to give users "a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, [and] to let you know you have rights." Includes FAQs on intellectual property, online defamation law, section 230 (of the Communication Decency Act of 1996) protections, and privacy; FAQs for bloggers as journalists (reporter's privilege and media access); and FAQs relating to election and labor laws. From the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

Publisher:
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Extra Keywords
Title 47 section 230 Press copyright

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Blogs
Electronic publishing -- Law and legislation

LII Database Information:
Record 5060 created by Maria Brandt on 06/14/2005
Last modification on 09/30/2009
Published: 06/14/2005  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/5060