Kim Tasso offers 7 firm-wide and 11 personal points to help successfully integrate social media into marketing, selling and relationship management programmes…
Read More… from Connect, Engage and Interact with Social Media
Chris Hutchings warns of the risks of using social media without due care and attention. He also suggests ways to harvest the benefits of social media without putting a business at risk…
Read More… from Commercial Use of Facebook and Twitter: Risks and Rewards
Alastair Cox and Iona Harding examine the intellectual property pitfalls associated with everyday uses of social media….
The Council of Europe has adopted an Internet Governance Strategy to protect and promote human rights, the rule of law and democracy online….
Read More… from Council of Europe’s Internet Governance Strategy
Graham Smith offers some thought-provoking reflections on the judgment in the recent Google libel case and considers its importance for online defamation claims. This article is taken from his Cyberleagle blog at www.cyberleagle.com….
The High Court has given answers to some of the questions concerning liability for online defamation arising from alleged libel in comments attached to a post on Google’s Blogger.com. Was Google a publisher? Was it protected by the Defamation Act and/or the E-commerce Directive? Laurence Eastham summarises key points from the judgment….
Read More… from User-generated Content and Defamation: New Judgment re Google’s Blogger.com
In light of recent guidance for law firms from the Law Society, Laura Scaife looks at the need for a policy on social media…
The CJEU rules that the owner of an online social network cannot be obliged to install a general filtering system in order to prevent the unlawful use of protected works…
You can’t take it with you – will my digital assets disappear in a puff of smoke? I offer a depressing musical journey and a plea for enlightenment….
Are emails and texts going to be supplanted by social media sites….