Social media legal risk: Are you ‘red alert’ on the @journlaw 6-point scale?
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw It was only in planning, researching and writing my book ‘Blogging and Tweeting Without Getting Sued’ that I started to think about various levels of legal risk in the...
View ArticleBlurred lines for journalists and social media editors: Are you personally...
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw A short section of my new book – Blogging and Tweeting Without Getting Sued – has the heading ‘Who carries the can?’. There, I write: “Most bloggers cherish their...
View ArticleSocial media, you and the law: Transcript of the @lawreportrn interview with...
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Transcript of the @lawreportrn interview with @journlaw and @julieposetti on May 22, 2012. To listen, go to the ABC Radio National Law Report website for podcast...
View ArticleCelebrities’ social media strife a lesson for us all
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw [First published in the Gold Coast Bulletin, Monday, June 4, 2012, p. 33] Every week we hear about yet another celebrity finding themselves on the wrong side of the law...
View ArticleThe liability time bomb of comments on your FB fan page #medialaw
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw What if someone posted a comment to your Facebook fan page at 5.15pm on a Friday alleging a leading businessman in your community was a paedophile? How long would it be...
View ArticleQueensland’s biggest publisher – the police – try to calm the FB lynch mob
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw The resources of the Queensland Police Service Facebook fan page were stretched over the past 24 hours to cope with the public response to their announcement of an...
View ArticlePrejudging justice – lessons from the US
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw A riveting session at this week’s AEJMC convention in Chicago was billed “Prejudging Justice: The News Media and Prominent Criminal Trials”, featuring high profile...
View ArticleCONTEMPT update – experiment in collaborative scholarship
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Both of my recent books are relatively up to date but anyone researching media law in traditional and new platforms knows how quickly the landscape is changing. It’s...
View ArticleDEFAMATION update – an experiment in collaborative scholarship
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Both of my recent books are relatively up to date but anyone researching media law in traditional and new platforms knows how quickly the landscape is changing. It’s...
View ArticleSHIELD LAWS update – an experiment in collaborative scholarship
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Both of my recent books are relatively up to date but anyone researching media law in traditional and new platforms knows how quickly the landscape is changing. It’s...
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