When the law suit against Law Buzz named Russell Howe, Tycho Manson, Kevin Preston, and Jenny Rutherford as defendants, the last thing anybody expected was that these defendants would start their own law suit to identify other anonymous posters.

Tycho Manson launched a lawsuit against a Blogspot site, Law Buzz Litigation, to identify anonymous posters there allegedly defaming him.  Manson was recently successful at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in receiving an order that should provide him this information.

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How does this tweet by Fahmi Fadzi turn into a lawsuit, an international sensation, and the apology tweet below one hundred times?

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Omar Ha-Redeye presented on “Online Reputation Management” at LegalIT 5.0 in Montreal on April 4, 2011.

“Reputation Management Law” is the application of old legal principles to new public relations challenges due to the proliferation of social media.  It draws upon the intersection of defamation, privacy, copyright and trade-mark, and employment laws, but applies them in conjunction with contemporary best practices in the public relations field.
Reputation matters like never before, and the impact of social media on the bottom line means businesses and professionals are paying attention.  Between sites that review businesses and services, and blogs optimized to rank higher on Google searches, clients are now asking lawyers what they can do for them.

Complete program is now available in pdf here.
LegalIT5.0 Programme

Bios on the other speakers available here:

Bob Tarantino of Heenan Blaikie picked up on a post on Slaw by Omar Ha-Redeye on internet defamation damages, citing an article by Matthew Nied, and commented on it on the firm’s Entertainment and Medial Law Signal: