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Courts Are Asked to Crack Down on Bloggers
Posted October 3rd, 2006 by MBA News
USA TODAY published a story today, Courts are asked to crack down on bloggers, websites which highlights the increase in legal threats facing bloggers. The article contains quotes from MBA President Robert Cox and gives prominent mention to the MBA's work in the "Maine Blogger" case.
Laura Parker writes:
blogs [are] increasingly are being targeted by those who feel harmed by blog attacks. In the past two years, more than 50 lawsuits stemming from postings on blogs and website message boards have been filed across the nation. The suits have spawned a debate over how the "blogosphere" and its revolutionary impact on speech and publishing might change libel law...
Robert Cox, founder and president of the Media Bloggers Association, which has 1,000 members, says the recent wave of lawsuits means that bloggers should bone up on libel law. "It hasn't happened yet, but soon, there will be a blogger who is successfully sued and who loses his home," he says. "That will be the shot heard round the blogosphere."
The article goes on to quote Cox as well as Greg Herbert of Greenberg Trauring who was lead counsel in the Maine Blogger case and is a member of the MBA's Legal Defense Initiative.
UPDATE: a version of this story ran in the Singapore Straits Times