Bloggers under legal threat for alleged defamation or copyright violation
This page will be a list of bloggers who have been subjected to attempts to make them remove things that they have written or comments that they have made by various stripes of Libel and other Lawyers.
It is designed to provide a list of cases to be referred to when anyone claims that there is not a problem with English Defamation Law.
- 20090205 – Ben Goldacre of Bad Science threatened by lawyers for LBC Radio and Jeni Barnett over 45 minute segment of 3 hour show posted as part of extensive critique of Jeni’s phone-in about MMR vaccine.
- 20090204 – Big News Margate under threat for criticising (UK) Kent County Council’s internet-based Kent TV service. The station, paid for by tax payers in the county, is provided by Bob Geldof’s production company Ten Alps.
The UK Libel Laws have taken another step into the abyss and could signal the end of Free Speech. A UK based media club, The Groucho Club which is owned by a billion pound corporation ‘Graphite Capital’ have launched a one of kind High Court action for a pre publishing test case for libel against Tyrone D Murphy, the author of an exposé book about the club. The book has not been completed yet and the case seems to be based on what could be written and not what has been written. http://www.g-book.co.uk is the book web site
What do you make of this type of case where a legal action can be taken against a writer of a book that has not been written yet. This action is certainly a threat against all writers and journalists
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