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Legal Guide to Social Media, Second Edition: Rights and Risks for Businesses, Entrepreneurs, and Influencers
Learn how to navigate the ins and outs of the law and social media.
How should you respond to a request to remove copyrighted materials from a Facebook page? If you create a Twitter username at work, who owns the username when you change jobs? Can you be sued for libel if someone thinks your posts are defamatory? If you’ve ever asked yourself these kinds of questions, this pioneering legal handbook is for you.
Despite the enormous growth in social media usage by businesses and influencers, very little has been written about the laws affecting their activities. In this new edition of the Legal Guide to Social Media , Kimberly A. Houser, law professor and tech attorney, explains the potential pitfalls and how to avoid them including what social media influencers could have done to protect themselves from the lawsuits resulting from the Fyre Festival debacle.
Easy-to-understand, comprehensive, and up-to-date, the Legal Guide to Social Media, Second Edition provides the latest information on case law and statutes. It covers everything from privacy laws to the legal considerations in setting up a page or website as well as new governmental regulations. This plain English legal companion offers examples of and solutions to the kinds of situations you can expect to encounter when posting online content, whether for yourself, your own business, or on behalf of your client’s business. You’ll learn how to avoid liability for defamation and third-party posts, how to protect your own content, the unique legal issues surrounding social media in the workplace, and much, much more. The new edition covers new state regulations on privacy, data security and advertising; how to avoid intellectual property infringement actions; and the newer legal risks for influencers.
How should you respond to a request to remove copyrighted materials from a Facebook page? If you create a Twitter username at work, who owns the username when you change jobs? Can you be sued for libel if someone thinks your posts are defamatory? If you’ve ever asked yourself these kinds of questions, this pioneering legal handbook is for you.
Despite the enormous growth in social media usage by businesses and influencers, very little has been written about the laws affecting their activities. In this new edition of the Legal Guide to Social Media , Kimberly A. Houser, law professor and tech attorney, explains the potential pitfalls and how to avoid them including what social media influencers could have done to protect themselves from the lawsuits resulting from the Fyre Festival debacle.
Easy-to-understand, comprehensive, and up-to-date, the Legal Guide to Social Media, Second Edition provides the latest information on case law and statutes. It covers everything from privacy laws to the legal considerations in setting up a page or website as well as new governmental regulations. This plain English legal companion offers examples of and solutions to the kinds of situations you can expect to encounter when posting online content, whether for yourself, your own business, or on behalf of your client’s business. You’ll learn how to avoid liability for defamation and third-party posts, how to protect your own content, the unique legal issues surrounding social media in the workplace, and much, much more. The new edition covers new state regulations on privacy, data security and advertising; how to avoid intellectual property infringement actions; and the newer legal risks for influencers.
216 pages, Paperback
Published April 19, 2022
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About the author
Kimberly A. Houser
3 books2 followersKimberly A. Houser is a business consultant, attorney, professor, and writer, who has been counseling clients and lecturing on Internet law and e-commerce issues for over a decade. She graduated from the University of Texas in 1984 with a Bachelor of Business Administration and earned her law degree from the University of Illinois in 1987. Kimberly is a Clinical Associate Professor of Business Law for Washington State University, which allows her to stay current with the ever-changing legal issues that arise in the domain of information technology. She is well known for being able to break down complicated legal issues into manageable pieces.
Her primary research area involves exploring the paradox of applying current laws to emerging technologies. Kimberly is also the author of Survey of American Law, an introductory law textbook for undergraduate students and has been published in the Illinois Bar Journal and the International Journal of Business and Public Administration. She is the recipient of a Rickert Award in Excellence in Clinical Legal Education and an Am Jur in Trial Advocacy. She is also a member of the Legal Writing Institute, the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, and the Cyber Law and Data Privacy Section of the Chicago Bar Association.
The inception of this book began years ago, when Kimberly was searching for a legal guide she could recommend to her business clients who were beginning to set up websites and discovered that there were not any such books out there. She started putting together a notebook with a collection of articles, cases, and blog posts covering the legal issues involved in taking a business online. When she learned that more and more of her clients were posting content on social media and other websites, she added that information as well. She was shocked to discover clients posting false reviews of their services, copying from other websites without authorization, and collecting personal information from their customers without informing them of the collection activities. She realized at this point that the legal issues were much larger than her clients understood. Because of the recent explosion in social media usage, she turned her notebook into manuscript in order to share the information she collected.
Kimberly is passionate about educating and helping people. She will often talk with her clients for hours, discussing their problems and concerns (even when their “official” time is up). She wrote the Legal Guide to Social Media because there are no other books like it. She wants not only her clients, but also all users of social media to become aware of the risks in posting content. Because of the increasing numbers and sizes of judgments in this area of law, she feels strongly about educating the public and making these simple protection strategies available to everyone. Kimberly lives in Pullman, Washington. She enjoys Words with Friends, many outdoor activities, and discussing libertarian ideals.
Her primary research area involves exploring the paradox of applying current laws to emerging technologies. Kimberly is also the author of Survey of American Law, an introductory law textbook for undergraduate students and has been published in the Illinois Bar Journal and the International Journal of Business and Public Administration. She is the recipient of a Rickert Award in Excellence in Clinical Legal Education and an Am Jur in Trial Advocacy. She is also a member of the Legal Writing Institute, the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, and the Cyber Law and Data Privacy Section of the Chicago Bar Association.
The inception of this book began years ago, when Kimberly was searching for a legal guide she could recommend to her business clients who were beginning to set up websites and discovered that there were not any such books out there. She started putting together a notebook with a collection of articles, cases, and blog posts covering the legal issues involved in taking a business online. When she learned that more and more of her clients were posting content on social media and other websites, she added that information as well. She was shocked to discover clients posting false reviews of their services, copying from other websites without authorization, and collecting personal information from their customers without informing them of the collection activities. She realized at this point that the legal issues were much larger than her clients understood. Because of the recent explosion in social media usage, she turned her notebook into manuscript in order to share the information she collected.
Kimberly is passionate about educating and helping people. She will often talk with her clients for hours, discussing their problems and concerns (even when their “official” time is up). She wrote the Legal Guide to Social Media because there are no other books like it. She wants not only her clients, but also all users of social media to become aware of the risks in posting content. Because of the increasing numbers and sizes of judgments in this area of law, she feels strongly about educating the public and making these simple protection strategies available to everyone. Kimberly lives in Pullman, Washington. She enjoys Words with Friends, many outdoor activities, and discussing libertarian ideals.
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April 9, 2022
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