mag. Benjamin Lesjak
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| Assistant at the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor on the subject of Legal information technology, he deals with legal questions of an information society. He graduated in law and got a masters in information technologies. He has published several texts on the responsibility of providers of online publishing services to an information society. His other field of research covers topics ranging form the legal perspective of electronic communications, managing legal sources and sharing knowledge among lawyers to the introduction of modern methods of legal studies and the use of information technology in the legal system. |
Some legal issues for blog authors and commentators
A blogger can seriously infringe or violate the rights of others by publishing texts, images or videos and other media on the web. We will try to answer certain legal issues connected with writing and commenting on blogs on the fringes of the law as far as responsibility of authors is concerned.
This is seen primarily in forms of slander, misuse of a person’s good name, standing and personal data, violation of intellectual property rights and the like. Bloggers often believe that they can post any idea and are completely untouchable, especially if they write anonymously or under a pseudonym.
