Newsu course review
The course through the newsu website was “Online Media Law:
The Basics for Bloggers and Other Publishers”.
This course goes through three main aspects in relation to blogging and
publishing articles on the internet.
Defamation is one of these aspects. This basically is the publication of a false
statement that damages the reputation of a person or business. People are divided into two categories,
private and public. People that fall
into the public category must meet certain criteria, public figures are
obviously considered public, and it is generally people that are known from
movie stars to local figures that are known within a community. Directors of company’s can fall into this category
also, especially if the company is well known.
With private figures it may be more difficult to peruse legal action in
a defamation case.
The copyright infringement section of the course explains to
the reader, the methods of avoiding liability when it comes to copyright infringement. An example from the course would be where
someone sets up a blog that allows other people to post on it. If the third party blogger was to post
copyrighted material on your blog, you would not be liable if you have followed
procedures for notifying the user and takedown the material. The term used to describe this was “safe harbour”.
If you publish information about someone, whether true or
false, you may become legally liable.
One of the chapters from the course that remains in my head is “intrusion
upon exclusion”, this protects people from invasion of privacy in a place where
you should expect to have privacy.
It was interesting to learn about these laws that protect
your privacy, reputation and work. From
the other side, it is interesting and important to know how to protect yourself
from exposure to legal liability.
Thanks for reading,
Colm
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