Legal Guide for Bloggers

The fine people at the Electronic Frontier Foundation have pieced together a few online FAQ's to help bloggers answer some difficult and often times tricky legal questions. These guides are a must-read for any serious bloggers out there with little knowledge about the law with regard to defamation, intellectual property rights, privacy, and bloggers as journalists.

I do recommend starting from the EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers page before working your way through the specific FAQ's (This link has also been conveniently placed in the "legal references" section to the right).

If anyone out there plans to be the next big "journalist" to rattle the cages, I highly recommend reading these publications from the EFF before biting off more than you can chew... and remember, "professional" journalists like ABC's John Stossel have their legal defenses bank-rolled by their employers (see Rogal v. Stossel).