{"id":721,"date":"2014-01-16T17:20:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T17:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=721"},"modified":"2014-01-16T17:20:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T17:20:24","slug":"courtney-loves-libel-trial-inspires-this-proposed-fix-for-twitter-defamation-businessweek-15-january-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2014\/01\/16\/courtney-loves-libel-trial-inspires-this-proposed-fix-for-twitter-defamation-businessweek-15-january-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtney Love&#8217;s Libel Trial Inspires This Proposed Fix for Twitter Defamation &#8211; Businessweek, 15 January 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In allowing the case to go to trial, the judge in the case soundly rejected that argument. Jonathan Zittrain, a Harvard professor of law and computer science, agrees with the judge that Twitter shouldn\u2019t reshape the way courts see defamation. The distinctions courts use to decide whether a statement is libelous\u2014whether it\u2019s presented as fact (potentially libelous) or opinion (usually protected), whether the writer knew the statement to be false\u2014don\u2019t disappear because the writing in question is a tweet rather than an essay.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-01-15\/courtney-loves-libel-trial-inspires-this-proposed-fix-for-twitter-defamation?utm_source=News%40Law+subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=b127235755-News_Law_Thursday_January_16_20141_16_2014&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_856982f9c6-b127235755-259577617\">Courtney Love&#8217;s Libel Trial Inspires This Proposed Fix for Twitter Defamation &#8211; Businessweek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In allowing the case to go to trial, the judge in the case soundly rejected that argument. Jonathan Zittrain, a Harvard professor of law and computer science, agrees with the judge that Twitter shouldn\u2019t reshape the way courts see defamation. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2014\/01\/16\/courtney-loves-libel-trial-inspires-this-proposed-fix-for-twitter-defamation-businessweek-15-january-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}