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: Media LawMore Views on 'Dangerous' Libel Case
By Robert J. Ambrogi
- At Nieman Journalism Lab, Martin Langeveld writes: "The case threatens to muzzle both news and entertainment media, and could be particularly dangerous to independent bloggers and small startup news organizations ? neither of which is likely to have the legal resources a traditional established news organization has to battle libel suits."
- Los Angeles entertainment lawyer Gordon P. Firemark blogs: "If allowed to stand, this case could make anybody a potential defendant. It will certainly have a chilling effect on important forms of speech, such as documentary films and many forms of investigative journalism."
Full post as published by Media Law on February 18, 2009 (boomark / email).
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