Citizen Media Law Project Launches Legal Assistance Network: CMLP launched its Online Media Legal Network (OMLN), a new pro bono initiative that connects lawyers from across the country with online journalists and digital media creators who need legal help. Lawyers participating in OMLN will provide qualifying online publishers with pro bono and reduced fee legal assistance on a broad range of legal issues, including business formation and governance, copyright licensing and fair use, employment and freelancer agreements, access to government information, pre-publication review, and representation in litigation. More information is available here.
New Resource Devoted to Section 230 of the CDA: CMLP launched a new page that aggregates everything on our site relating to section 230 of the Communications Decency Act ("Section 230"), the important federal statute that protects operators of websites and other interactive computer services from liability for publishing the statements of third-parties. The page includes detailed background on Section 230, links to our legal guide and feeds showing recent legal threats from our database, blog posts, and news from across the Web. You can check out the new page here.
