The seemingly anonymous world of the Internet leads many of us to say things there that we would never say in person. But watch out, libel laws follow you into cyberspace.
Filed under: Business, Civil Litigation, Constitutional Law, Legal Topics, Social Media, Tort Law | Tagged: blog, blogger, defamation, internet, law school, law student, libel, opinion | 1 Comment »
Serving a complaint via Facebook may be in our future. As BusinessWeek.com reports, the practice of online legal service is spreading around the world as courts look for new ways to keep their dockets moving.
Filed under: Civil Litigation, Legal Topics, Practice of Law, Social Media | Tagged: electronic service, Facebook, Internet service, service of summons, social media | Comments Off
A company’s trade secrets have always been an integral and valuable part of its business assets. Social media networking is fast becoming an integral and valuable part of business practice. By their very nature, these two concepts clash and create unprecedented risks of trade secret exposure and challenges for trade secret law.
Filed under: Business, Employment Law, Legal Topics, Social Media | Tagged: social media, social networking, trade secrets | Comments Off
The issue of what constitutes a church for the IRS tax exemption purposes has recently been considered in a novel context: Is a congregation that holds only internet and radio worship services a church entitled to IRS tax benefits? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that the ”electronic ministry” did not meet the [...]
Filed under: Business, Legal Topics, Social Media | Tagged: church, exempt, internet, IRS | 3 Comments »
Yet another example of the law of unintended consequences at work: Those seemingly frivolous Facebook posts can be a prime source of evidence in a legal case. Facebook posts have a wide range of potential evidentiary value, from information on a person’s feelings, which may be particularly relevant in family law cases, to the use of geo-tagging for [...]
Filed under: Evidence, Legal Topics, Litigation Strategy, Social Media | Tagged: evidence, Facebook | 2 Comments »
Social media — including Facebook and Twitter — has quickly become part of our daily lives. User generated content (UGC), including images, video, audio, and text, are uploaded everyday without thought as to whether it is protected under copyright law. But some are starting to ask questions on the limits of copyright in social media. Is a single “tweet” on [...]
Filed under: Business, Legal Topics, Social Media | Tagged: copyright, end use license agreements, Facebook, social media, twitter | Comments Off
It is clearly a crime to hack someone else’s computer. In addition to criminal penalties, Pen C §502 provides that the hackee who suffers loss or damages from a violation of the statute has the right to bring a civil action against the violator for compensatory damages and injunctive relief. But what about hacking into someone’s [...]
Filed under: Criminal Law, Legal Topics, Social Media | 1 Comment »
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