Slides from presentation and WordCamp Boston

1. www.citmedialaw.org twitter.com/@citmedialaw

3. Legal risks associated with newsgathering and publishing

4. Defamation

5. Privacy

6. Intellectual Property (You should have been listening when Miguel spoke.)

7. Product and Service Endorsements (Or, how not to get on the bad side of the FTC)

8. User Submissions and Comments

9. Safe Harbors (Know them, love them)

10. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)

11. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (Section 230)

12. Practical steps to reduce your legal risks

13. Good journalistic practices = Reduced legal risk

16. Shield Laws (Or, you’re in Mass., forgeddaboutit. Move to Rhode Island.)

17. Create appropriate website terms & conditions

19. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (Get thee to a lawyer.)

20. Insurance (You’re a professional, so act like one.)

21. Where to go for help?

22. www.OMLN.org A Legal Referral Network for Online Media An initiative of: