Know Your Rights
Knowing your legal rights and responsibilities
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Legal Claims Based on False Speech
- Defamation
- What is a Defamatory Communication?
- Is it Libel or Slander?
- Can Dead People Be Defamed?
- Defamation of Corporations and Partnerships
- Defamation of Groups or Individual Members
- Can An Opinion Be Defamatory?
- Libel and Slander Per Se
- Liability For Repeating Defamatory Statement
- Proof of Harm Requirement for Liable and Slander Damages
- Is Truth A Defense to Defamation?
- Am I Liable for Republishing Defamatory Statements?
- Defamation-Public Official (or Figure) vs. Private Person
- Consent as a Defense to Defamation
- Defamation & The Defense of Privilege
- False Light
- Business Disparagement
- Tortious Interference with Contractual or Business Relations
- Civil Conspiracy
- Fraud or Misrepresentation
- Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
Legal Claims Based on Privacy
- Publication of Private Facts (Invasion of Privacy, Intrusion Upon Seclusion)
- Using the Name or Likeness of Another (Intrusion Upon Seclusion, Invasion of Privacy)
- Right of Publicity
- Trade Secrets
- Electronic Communications Privacy Act
- Stored Communication Privacy Act
- Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
- Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
Legal Claims Based on Intellectual Property Rights and Publishing Content of Others
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Defamatory, negative, and unwanted webpages and content removed
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Cases in 22 states and 3 countries litigated
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