At Gov2.0LA This Weekend: Legal Implications of Gov 2.0

I will be presenting at the Gov2.0LA conference at BlankSpaces in Los Angeles on Saturday, February 6, 2010. I will be joining lawyer Lisa Borodkin and CitySourced’s Kurt Daradics on a panel entitled “Legal Implications of Gov 2.0.”

Session Description:
“Government 2.0 means more citizen participation, but what laws are implicated when citizens share information on
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Boosting the Tourism Economy, Defamation-Style

The ultimate destination vacation? Forum shopping your libel suit.
Years after an article is written and the first round of defamation suits result from a publication, the current legal framework in the UK allows people to download articles years later and bring libel suits per download, i.e. per instance of publication. Under defamation law in
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Corporate-Created Legal Regimes

The law regarding all things online, whether it be intellectual property, privacy, or First Amendment rights, is nascent, and in some instances, non-existent. In the absence of the judicial system creating the parameters for individuals and organizations to navigate this space, corporations have substituted their discretion, terms of use, and privacy policies as the rules
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Keeping it Illegit

The illegitimate view of citizen journalism (still pondering a more appropriate term) that both traditional media and others have taken extends today into the courtroom.
In Tennessee, a judge found that the independent video producer of the website piratenews.org would not be allowed to film two trials to which he sought to shoot. The judge found
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