EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers

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Website

Abstract

The “EFF” in “EFF : legal guide for bloggers” stands for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. According to the homepage of the Legal guide for bloggers, EFF “… is a non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public resources and information online, as well as to promote responsibility in new media.” The Legal guide for bloggers site contains a collection of frequently asked questions (FAQs) for bloggers about their legal rights. Topics include intellectual property, online defamation law, section 230 (of the Communication Decency Act of 1996) protections, and privacy. Also includes FAQs for bloggers as journalists on reporter’s privilege and media access, and FAQs relating to election and labor laws.

Publication Date

2001

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