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News Challenge 101: Legal Issues to Consider
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Links to the Citizen Media Law Project's legal guide presented at Wednesday morning's "boot camp."
Getting your project off the ground
Protecting your good name
Forming a Business: It's never too early to plan for your success
Legal risks associated with newsgathering and publishing
Practical steps you can take to reduce your legal risks
Good journalistic practices = reduced legal risks
- Strive for accuracy and check your facts
- Cultivate reliable sources
- Approach your work ethically
- Seek permission or consent to use the work or images of others
- Be willing to correct your mistakes
- Educate yourself about journalism, media law and develop procedures for fact checking, rights clearance, newsgathering
- Knight Citizen News Network
- CMLP's Legal Guide
- Course at Poynter's News University: Online Media Law: The Basics for Bloggers & Other Online Publishers
Create Appropriate Website Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy
- Don't make promises you can't or don't intend to keep
- Be clear about what information you collect and whether you will keep it private
- Designate someone to receive notifications of copyright infringement under the DMCA
Insurance (You're a professional, so act like one)