11-05-2006, 12:52 PM
Quote:Two lawyers from Brown Rudnick explain the legal dangers of podcasting, and how to avoid them.
Podcasting is challenging existing paradigms for how corporations and individuals reach out to their audiences. However, like any other mass media publisher, podcasters can be held responsible under United States law if they cross the line from the protected exercise of the freedom of speech to defaming the subject of a podcast. However, while the basic principles of defamation law have long been settled, courts are still deciding how those basic principles will apply to new media such as podcasting...
Conclusion
Although podcasting is a comparatively new and energetic medium of communication, it is still subject to traditional principles of defamation law in the United States. Podcasters should be aware of defamation law when exercising their editorial judgment over what content to include in a broadcast...
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