LEGAL INSIGHTS AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN INTERNET LAW & ONLINE BUSINESS

It’s been quite a year for online defamation. The average amount of time spent online seems to be directly proportional to the amount of Internet libel claims. Thanks to the smartphone craze, we’re now plugged-in 24/7, and in the first half of 2011, defamation lawsuits took center stage in court rooms around the world.
Let’s take a look back at three interesting cases.
Dawn Simorangkir v. Courtney Love: The Drunken Tweets Worth Nearly Half A Million
In 2009, Dawn Simorangkir (a.k.a. “the Boudoir Queen”) had an up-and-coming fashion business – her online sales were doing well and members of the glitterati showed [...]

Tennessee is trying to figure out a way to inject a healthy dose of common courtesy into the Volunteer State’s law books—but what they’re doing is arguably unconstitutional.