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Legal Guide

Welcome to the Citizen Media Law Project's Legal Guide! This guide addresses the practical issues that you may encounter as you gather information, create new and exciting content, and publish your work online. It is intended for use by citizen m ...

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Forming a Business and Getting Online

Whether you're just getting started or you're a seasoned A-list blogger, there are many legal and practical issues to consider in deciding how to carry on your online publishing activities. We had to start somewhere, so we started at the beginning -- ...

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Dealing with Online Legal Risks

Publishing your own content on the Internet sometimes seems like a daunting endeavor, especially when you read press accounts of this blogger or that website getting sued over what they publish online. The hard fact is that there are a number of lega ...

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Newsgathering and Privacy

This section of the legal guide highlights the legal and practical issues you may encounter as you gather documents, take photographs or video, and collect other information. Many of the subjects discussed in this section are relevant whether or not y ...

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Access to Government Information

This section of the legal guide outlines the wide-array of information available to you from government sources. These sources range from your local city council all the way up to the largest agencies in the federal government. In fact, you mi ...

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Risks Associated With Publication

We are sorry but this section of the legal guide is not yet complete. We anticipate publishing this part of the guide in the spring of 2008. In this section we plan to cover the following topics: Restricted and Criminal Speech Obscen ...

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Intellectual Property

Intellectual property is a blanket term for multiple areas of law that govern the ownership and rights to "products of the mind." Many, but not all, intellectual property laws seek to encourage innovation and creativity, with an ulti ...

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Unique Content: Special Risks

We are sorry but this section of the legal guide is not yet complete. We anticipate publishing this part of the guide later in 2008. In this section we plan to cover the following topics: Employee Blogs Disclosure of Trade Secrets ...

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Guides and Resources

Citizen Media Legal Guide Legal Threats Database CMLP Project Blogs ...

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Creating a Business

This section discusses the issues you should consider when forming a business or choosing a business structure to support your online publishing activities. While we suggest that you review these sections in the order they are listed below, if you ...

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