Libel in the Blogosphere: Some Preliminary Thoughts

Reynolds, Glenn

doi:10.2139/ssrn.898013

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Libel in the Blogosphere: Some Preliminary Thoughts

Glenn Harlan Reynolds

University of Tennessee College of Law

2006

Berkman Center for Internet & Society - Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship Conference, 2006

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This brief essay attempts to account for the paucity of libel litigation relating to weblogs, and to explore ways in which the law of libel may change in response to the different character of weblogs, and new media in general.

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Date posted: April 20, 2006

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Reynolds, Glenn Harlan, Libel in the Blogosphere: Some Preliminary Thoughts (2006). Berkman Center for Internet & Society - Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship Conference, 2006. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=898013 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.898013

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