The legal risks of corporate blogging

2006 September 12
by Cornelius

I came across an interesting article by Jacqueline Klosek, an associate at Goodwin Procter, on the legal risks of blogging in corporate contexts. Here’s one interesting quote:
New blogs tend to build on the work of existing blogs or other content through linking and copying. This can create legal concerns regarding copyright infringement if not conducted within the confines of the law.

Not being a legal expert, I can hardly delineate the confines of the law as clearly as I would like, but has there ever been a legal dispute over linking or quoting in a corporate blog? Is this problematic only when the sources are not clearly noted (one could argue that they always are when linking), or generally?

from → Blogging Legal Issues, Corporate Blogging

2 Comments
2006 September 13
Victoria Pynchon permalink

http://pub.bna.com/ptcj/99-560.htm

here’s a link for a federal district court opinion on the practice of making copyrighted
photographs available for linking; it’s my understanding that this opinion is
being appealed to the federal circuit appellate court.

2006 September 14
Cornelius permalink

Interesting. Seems like most cases of linking would fall under Fair Use, unless -as in this case- a copyright statement by the owner is omitted by the linker. Then again, a lot of bloggers do that at least occasionally.
Thanks for the information, Victoria!

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