Tag Archives: rss

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 […]

By Richard Best | Posted in Legal | Also tagged | Comments (0)

An introduction to social media sites and tools

March 18, 2008 – 12:10 pm

In some of my posts, in which I’ll be referring to legal issues relevant to governmental and other organisational social media sites, I’ll use the phrase “social media sites and tools” quite often. As such, I thought it best to explain, up front, what I mean. I’ve already done this in another context so it’s […]

By Richard Best | Posted in Govt 2.0, Legal, Participation | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

How did you get here?

March 12, 2008 – 12:00 pm

Recently I attended the Webstock conference here in Wellington, and I had my mind expanded, challenged and opened in so many ways that no doubt I’ll be blogging about it for years to come. But today I’m going to talk about two pieces of information that I heard.
The first was from a woman I talked to […]

By Joanna | Posted in Govt 2.0, Participation | Also tagged | Comments (13)