In this day and age, where every person and his or her intelligent dog is able to post content to the internet, whether it be textual, audio or audio-visual, the risk of third parties having a crack at you, your agency or business through the publication of infringing content has, I suspect, never been greater. [...]
Author Archives: Richard Best
Amendment to Terms of Use
February 3, 2009 – 1:34 pm
Those commenting on this blog may wish to note that we have amended clause 9 of the Terms of Use, to read as follows:
9. Pre-publication moderation Contributions to the Site may be moderated by one or more SSC moderators before being published. Those moderators may decline to publish contributions or may modify contributions if they [...]
Social media and legal code
May 9, 2008 – 4:05 pm
The article ‘Social media and legal code’ (PDF. 371KB), published recently in NZ Lawyer, provides a checklist of governance, legal, and quasi-legal issues for those involved in the planning, design, operation, and maintenance of social media sites. Hope it’s of some use.
Technorati Tags: Legal, resources, social media
Legal liability for republishing others’ RSS feed content which breaches third party rights
May 9, 2008 – 3:33 pm
As I have noted elsewhere, UK-based Out-law has recently reported, in one of its excellent legal podcasts, on recent cases in France in which the courts have held that website operators who republished RSS feed content onto their sites were legally responsible themselves as publishers of what transpired to be posts that were invasive of [...]
Some great thinking on collaborative governance
March 20, 2008 – 5:34 pm
The internet is a deep and rich repository of information. That’s the thought that surfaced when I came across the work of Professor Beth Simone Noveck today.
Among other things, Professor Noveck is a Professor of Law at New York Law School, with particular expertise in the impact of technology on legal and political institutions. She [...]
Staff Contribution Guidelines for In Development, Creative Commons style
March 13, 2008 – 10:15 am
One of the issues raised during the development of this blog was whether to have Staff Contribution Guidelines. Without the need for any protracted discussion, we decided that having such Guidelines in place prior to launch was desirable. Accordingly, draft Guidelines were prepared by the SSC legal team with reference to:
the Standards of Integrity and [...]
Greetings from a member of SSC Legal
March 13, 2008 – 9:29 am
Greetings to those who have stumbled across In Development. The purpose of this post is simple: to introduce myself and mention briefly what I’ll be blogging about.
I’m Richard Best and one of 5 lawyers working at the State Services Commission (SSC). My specific title is Legal Advisor to the All-of-government Authentication Programme. While the bulk [...]
