Comments on: Sued For Blogging about Publicly Available Information http://www.realcentralva.com/2009/02/20/sued-for-blogging-about-publicly-available-information/ Tracking Charlottesville's Real Estate Market since 2005 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:10:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Jim Duncan http://www.realcentralva.com/2009/02/20/sued-for-blogging-about-publicly-available-information/#comment-25675 Jim Duncan Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:25:49 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2009/02/20/sued-for-blogging-about-publicly-available-information/#comment-25675 Daniel - I see what you're saying, but think the MLS is a false comparison - public records are *public* records, and the MLS is a private organization. Regarding my blog posts - I absolutely am concerned about my blog posts ... based on the little information available about this suit, I can see that I could be dragged down by this concept. Posting articles about public data is part of the freedom of the press, and this is where I would highlight my wearing of the "journalism" hat ... and hope that some organization with resources challenges this ruling. Daniel -

I see what you’re saying, but think the MLS is a false comparison – public records are *public* records, and the MLS is a private organization.

Regarding my blog posts – I absolutely am concerned about my blog posts … based on the little information available about this suit, I can see that I could be dragged down by this concept. Posting articles about public data is part of the freedom of the press, and this is where I would highlight my wearing of the “journalism” hat … and hope that some organization with resources challenges this ruling.

]]> By: Daniel http://www.realcentralva.com/2009/02/20/sued-for-blogging-about-publicly-available-information/#comment-25655 Daniel Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:21:05 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2009/02/20/sued-for-blogging-about-publicly-available-information/#comment-25655 Jim: Just to play devil's advocate, what about information that someone makes publicly *accessible* but doesn't want that data publicly *distributed*. i.e. CAAR makes the MLS data publicly available via mycaar.com but does not allow anyone to repost that data anywhere else (I would know). Or what about your blog articles that you make publicly available? Obviously there is a big difference in linking to information and copying information, but it's a slippery slope. We need to start making judges take Internet 101 classes... Jim: Just to play devil’s advocate, what about information that someone makes publicly *accessible* but doesn’t want that data publicly *distributed*. i.e. CAAR makes the MLS data publicly available via mycaar.com but does not allow anyone to repost that data anywhere else (I would know). Or what about your blog articles that you make publicly available? Obviously there is a big difference in linking to information and copying information, but it’s a slippery slope. We need to start making judges take Internet 101 classes…

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