BoingBoing reader Tom Biro writes:
If you’re not familiar with what went down in the last week with regard to Jason Kottke’s blog, then here’s a quick refresher. Kottke had pointed out details he was given about Ken Jennings’ eventual demise on the television game show “Jeopardy,” and much speculation took place on blogs and in the public eye that he would lose sometime this year. Then, a few days ago, Kottke posted audio and a description of what happened in the “final” show for Jennings. A few days later, he was contacted by Sony and asked to first remove the audio and then the printed description. Various print outlets, including the Washington Post were apparently not told to do the same. (Or are at least not saying/doing so)
Thursday morning, Kottke wrote this post, where he stated that “Things may be a little quieter around here in the short term as I deal with some stuff going on in the real world….I can’t say too much about it (soon perhaps), but it sure has had a chilling effect on my enthusiasm for continuing to maintain kottke.org.”
The concern here is that a blogger could, even if s/he were *correctly/legally* doing something, be sued and lose the case, purely for financial reasons. Is this right?
No. It most certainly isn’t. Link to Kottke’s post. IFILM has a copy of the video here, and here’s a torrent Link (thanks alfie). For the KenJen-obsessed, here’s more fodder. Jeff Jarvis proposes a “Bloggers Legal Defense Society” — Link.