Indian bloggers are getting in legal tangle. Bloggers have already faced legal threats from the mainstream media. But, because of the lack of laws, an individual usually chooses to back off and retract his/her opinions. [Continue]
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ifacethoughtsGuide For FOSS On Legal Issues
Copyrights and licenses are not the most interesting subjects in software development. Unfortunately they cannot be bypassed, they have to be confronted. The free and open source software movement has always had a legal side which is working on this. [Continue]
Bloggers Not Responsible For Comments
Bloggers can feel safer. Federal Court ruled that a blogger cannot be sued for what a commenter says. Fair enough, though like someone said in the Slashdot discussion, a suit against the commenter is not that all frivolous. [Continue]
Illegal To Deep Link To Copyrighted Files
Amit Agarwal points out that a couple of court rulings make it illegal to deep link to the copyrighted files. The rulings are about audio and video files, but the same logic can be applied to any non-HTML resource. Though Internet is all about linking to resources, deep linking can cause use of bandwidth without a visit to the web site. [Continue]
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