Welcome to Defamation Law Radio. Internet defamation of character is as easy to perpetuate as a blog post, Facebook update, rating submission, or a forum comment.  Your online reputation is measured by the websites return as Google search results.  Do you know what people are saying and writing about you?

Welcome to Defamation Law Radio.  My name is Internet Law Attorney Enrico Schaefer.  I specialize in Internet Defamation.  That is, defamation that occurs online, on the World Wide Web, and, of course, we all know defamation involves both libel and slander.  Libel is written defamation and, of course, slander is spoken defamation.  In the internet space, it means this.  If a statement is written on a website, it’s potentially libel.  If it’s on a You Tube video or another video or an audio, then it is spoken, and it may be slander.

There are several elements of defamation.  Generally, you have to prove as a plaintiff that a defamatory statement was made, that’s the first element.  The second element is that you have to prove that that defamatory statement was published to third parties, that’s the second element.  And the third element is that you have to prove as a plaintiff that the publisher (the defendant) knew or should have known that the statement that they made which harmed the reputation was false.  So, those are the three general elements. Continue reading What is Defamation? Proving a Defamatory Statement. »