The Knight Digital Media Center is a partnership between the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism that provides fellowships and multimedia training resources for aspiring New Media journalists. It is funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Knight Digital Media Center offers free online multimedia training tutorials, which can be found Read more [...]
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Book Reviews and Legal Risk
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Question: What are the legal issues involved with book reviews? Can a reviewer be sued? What are the defenses? Response By Geanne Rosenberg: (Posted on May 25, 2009) The primary areas of legal risk for book reviewers are in libel and, to a much lesser extent, copyright law. See, Rule 1 and the related defamation materials. See, Rule 6 on copyright concerns. In the United States, there are very powerful protections against libel claims. For example, opinion is protected. So if you were Read more [...]