Citizen Media Legal Guide -- Know Your Rights
Flickr Photo: ourlady ofdisgraceDoes your organization blog? Do you encourage folks to post pictures online? Perhaps you have a video podcast?
If your organization uses social media tools, you want to bookmark the Berkman Center's new Citizen Media Legal Guide. It's not completely built out yet -- I couldn't find any information about Libel and Blogs for example. But the resources that ARE live are great. Here are just a few resources that address some of the questions I hear all the time:
- Deciding Whether and How to be Anonymous
- Deciding Whether and How to License Your Content
- Journalism Skills and Principles
I am especially looking forward to the forthcoming "Special Content" section which will cover enticing topics like "Employee Blogs." Did that sound sarcastic? I really mean it. I'm excited to see some really practical guidelines to which we can point the sector.
Hi Holly,
We were delighted to see your post on the Citizen Media Law Project.
A quick note: we will be publishing the sections on Intellectual Property and Risks Associated With Publication in the next couple of months. Hopefully you'll enjoy our coverage of libel issues.
Thanks again for writing about us,
Tuna Chatterjee
Staff Attorney
Citizen Media Law Project






Hi Tuna -
Thanks so much to you folks for the great resource. I'm looking forward to more!