Greedy Trial Lawyer
I Renounce Trade Libel In All Its Forms
Category: News Defused
And a dark cloud came over the land, and the dark cloud caused all of the people to think twice before they blogged on anything controversial.
At Concurring Opinions, blogger Kaimipono D. Wenger posts on the cloud that may be creeping over the blogosphere.
Blogger sued for trade libelThis suit has various elements, and it's hard to say how much of it would go forward in the absence of the (more conventional) copyright claims. This is not purely a trade libel suit based on blog content. But it contains that claim, and as such, it's a sobering data point. In particular, if these kinds of suits (trade libel over blog content) become a broader trend, that will have serious effects on blogs. After all, a good deal of the blogosphere is dedicated to criticism of some industry or other.
Let me be the first to announce my sincere disclaimer of any intention to ever libel any trade or participant in any trade. I renounce trade libel in all its forms. If anything I ever post looks even slightly like a libelous misstatement of fact it is just the ranting of a greedy trial lawyer who has momentarily veered into an accidental falsehood. Well, actually, the falsehood would be the truth as I see it. So, it really is just my opinion of a fact even if it looks like a statement of fact. And, it is not likely to be all that accidental, I suppose.
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