Posted on 10 May, 2012 in Online Defamation by aaronklaw
People are people, and boy oh boy what a mélange of misfits and mudslingers we are! Now, I thought I’ve seen it all when it comes to reality television, but never in a million years did I think I’d see the day where we could tune into a half-hour program about Internet defamation.
Many have been fell victim to online defamation. Raise your hand if that’s you. If your hand is in the air, you may be in reality-show luck, because somebody has come up with a way to capitalize on all that online defamation that’s happening.
That’s right, RealityWanted.com has reached [...]
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Posted on 31 August, 2011 in Online Defamation by aaronklaw
Online defamation is becoming an international epidemic!
Politicians over in England and Wales are now looking to inject safeguards into their countries’ defamation legislation, as a means to protect website operators from being intimidation-sued by large corporations with deep pockets. Moreover, parliamentarians hope to provide a more structured way for citizens to get defamatory content removed from the Internet.
Recent statistics made public by Sweet and Maxwell reveal that the number of online defamation lawsuits doubled between 2010 and 2011. Analysts surmise the rise in cyberlibel is directly correlated to the rise in online social networking sites, like Facebook and Google+.
Barrister Karieh [...]
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Posted on 10 August, 2011 in Online Defamation by aaronklaw
I first noticed it around 7:30 am aftering checking a site I’ve been pushing up in the rankings for a client. I realized that the familiar tagline of RipOffReport wasn’t there at #6; I searched the second page and there it was.
So I left it alone.
Curious, I came back a few minutes later and checked again; did a double-take;the RipOffReport link was gone. Completely. I just figured, “hey, that’s cool, it’s getting pushed down.” By 3:00pm I noticed that none of the links for any of the defamation cases I’m working on were [...]
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Posted on 4 August, 2011 in Internet Law and Intellectual Property, Misc. by aaronklaw
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 [...]
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