http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/09/04/comments-more-like-slander-than-libel/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/09/04/comments-more-like-slander-than-libel/comment-page-1/#comment-339226 Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Sept 10, 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:30:27 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2624#comment-339226 [...] Impacts: Reactions of bad behaviors How not to get banned from commenting link via colleague Nate Elliott, and are comments more like Slander than Libel? [...] [...] Impacts: Reactions of bad behaviors How not to get banned from commenting link via colleague Nate Elliott, and are comments more like Slander than Libel? [...]

]]> http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/09/04/comments-more-like-slander-than-libel/comment-page-1/#comment-375210 MaggyYoung Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:49:22 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2624#comment-375210 Interesting post. Agree with the ruling in principle, but it could open a floodgate & as they say, mud tends to stick & people do think there's no smoke without fire. Difficult ground, I think case law has a way to go here yet. I think you have to watch the particular, eg. in very simplistic terms, if you said something like Nike shoes are rubbish, you'd v. probably get no comebacks, but if you said all Nike shoes fall apart after a month, you could be in trouble if the comment gained a lot of publicity & Nike could claim damages to their product image & sales as a result. Interesting post. Agree with the ruling in principle, but it could open a floodgate & as they say, mud tends to stick & people do think there's no smoke without fire. Difficult ground, I think case law has a way to go here yet. I think you have to watch the particular, eg. in very simplistic terms, if you said something like Nike shoes are rubbish, you'd v. probably get no comebacks, but if you said all Nike shoes fall apart after a month, you could be in trouble if the comment gained a lot of publicity & Nike could claim damages to their product image & sales as a result.

]]> http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/09/04/comments-more-like-slander-than-libel/comment-page-1/#comment-339188 MaggyYoung Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:49:22 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2624#comment-339188 Interesting post. Agree with the ruling in principle, but it could open a floodgate & as they say, mud tends to stick & people do think there's no smoke without fire. Difficult ground, I think case law has a way to go here yet. I think you have to watch the particular, eg. in very simplistic terms, if you said something like Nike shoes are rubbish, you'd v. probably get no comebacks, but if you said all Nike shoes fall apart after a month, you could be in trouble if the comment gained a lot of publicity & Nike could claim damages to their product image & sales as a result. Interesting post. Agree with the ruling in principle, but it could open a floodgate & as they say, mud tends to stick & people do think there's no smoke without fire. Difficult ground, I think case law has a way to go here yet. I think you have to watch the particular, eg. in very simplistic terms, if you said something like Nike shoes are rubbish, you'd v. probably get no comebacks, but if you said all Nike shoes fall apart after a month, you could be in trouble if the comment gained a lot of publicity & Nike could claim damages to their product image & sales as a result.

]]> http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/09/04/comments-more-like-slander-than-libel/comment-page-1/#comment-345107 C_Collins (Chris Collins) Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:59:59 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2624#comment-345107 Sorry, dead link. Maybe this one will work. http://tinyurl.com/67p75c Sorry, dead link. Maybe this one will work. http://tinyurl.com/67p75c

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