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March 15, 2007

Bloggers and Libel

The Thursday edition of The Tennessean has a rather good story on bloggers and libel law. If you blog, read it. Then read up on libel law. Then make sure that the facts you state on your blog are, indeed, facts and can be backed up via real source material, and that opinions you state on your blog have some foundation in the facts, and are clearly stated as opinions. Truth is an ironclad defense against a libel claim. The paper's story has two sidebars, one a report on a local church that has filed a libel lawsuit against the operator of a critical website, and the other a primer on the basics of libel law.

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I haven't read the entire piece yet. Do they get into invasion of privacy, which can be invoked even if the offending statements are true?

Posted by: Donna Locke at March 15, 2007 2:36 PM

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