If you need help with a specific case of plagiarism or another legal issue common to bloggers, here is your chance to get some fast, free help.

A new book by Patrick O’keefe seeks to help forum admins better run their site and manages to become an important reference for avoiding community-related headaches.

Forums and communities have always been targets for spammers, but a new technique also threatens to draw the ire of content creators and other copyright holders.

Message boards are often thought of as dinosaurs on the Web. Where once having a presence on message boards and forums was almost as ubiquitous as email and IM, message boards have fallen on hard times, pushed aside by blogs and social networking sites.
However, there are still many thriving communities on the Web that use [...]

I wanted to take a quick moment today to remind everyone that the Performancing Legal Issues Forum is still open and accepting legal questions from bloggers and Webmasters. So far, the forum has used to address questions surrounding copyright law, trademark issues and cybersquatting problems among others.
It is a valuable and free resource that I [...]

I’ve teamed up with the editors at Performancing to create a Legal Issues Forum on their site. I am serving as an adviser on that forum, answering legal questions that bloggers may face.
Though the forum is targeted largely at copyright and content theft issues, any and all legal questions that relate to blogging and the [...]

When it comes to matters of content theft, administrators at community sites face a very different set of challenges. Whether the site is a forum, a wiki or a collaborative blog, the content is valuable, but it is also difficult to protect.
The problem is that the community admin, the person usually in the best position [...]