Vickie Pynchon summarizes the 5 ways to reduce risk in the use of copyrighted materials by bloggers and citizen journalists.
The use of others’ copyrighted work under the fair use doctrine is how we bloggers survive. But there are limits to what fair use allows us to use.
Vickie culled this handy list from a…
Leading legal publisher and lawyer, Bob Ambrogi, posts on the never ending problem of law-related blogs that consist entirely or almost entirely of posts taken from other sources.
…[L]et me offer one example. The blog purports to be that of a company that provides services to the legal profession. All posts are ‘signed’ by the
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Google brings us a good lesson on the right to use corporate logos in your blog posts.
Google sent out a cease and desist letter to a guy who used Google’s logo on a website that informed people how to get their business listed on the search engines. Techdirt, which blogged on this incident…
