We have previously written about anonymity online here in relation to Norwich Pharmacal orders in the UK, it is a very topical subject, lying at the intersection of freedom of speech, and defamation law. Now recent events have brought a related activity, termed CyberSLAPPing, back into the limelight. If you hadn’t heard, to CyberSLAPP is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘defamation’
Web 2.0 and blogging
The incident involving Community Trade Mark Filing Service and defamation threats has been thought provoking on many levels. Only recently I wrote an article on online reputation monitoring for the Society of Computers and Law magazine. (The article is accessible to members, and at £50 per annum, membership is excellent value). In the article I [...]
Stocktaking on Community Trade Mark Filing Service issue (at the risk of boring readers)
I think it’s worth looking at what has happened here given the allegations of defamation. It all started when I posted a tweet on Twitter mentioning that 3 clients had received CTMFS’ ‘invoices’. Ending with the word ‘scams’. If Mr Evans’ intention was to stop the use of the word ‘scam’ in relation to the [...]
Threats of defamation proceedings.
When I wrote the postscript about the Community Trade Mark Filing Service, I assumed that would be the end of it. Obviously I had not understood Mr Evans. Having now received a solicitors’ letter in which they have even attempted to frighten me by making accusations of breaching Law Society Codes of Conduct for publishing [...]
ISP liability and the Digital Britain Report
Traditionally, ISPs have had limited liability under the laws of England and Wales. The are not liable for defamatory comments or IP infringements including illegal downloading unless they are given notice that one of their users is committing illegal activities or one of their sites had infringing content. Recently, there has been a lot of [...]
