The Citizen Media Law Project, run by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, has created a Legal Threats Database. Creative Economy describes the Database:
The Legal Threats Database is a catalog of the growing number of lawsuits, cease and desist letters, and other legal challenges faced by those engaging in online speech. This publicly accessible database aims to provide lawyers, citizen journalists, and mainstream media alike with a valuable resource for assessing the validity and possible outcomes of legal threats to online speech, based on actual cases and legal actions.
The database, the first such interactive compendium, contains legal threats from 35 states and 9 countries, and is growing daily. These threats range from copyright infringement lawsuits filed against bloggers to cease and desist letters claiming defamation sent to MySpace users. Visitors to the CMLP’s website can input new threat entries, comment on existing threats, and search the database in a number of ways, including by location, legal claim, publication medium, and content type.
Visit the Database here. This is an excellent idea and if you are aware of or have received any "legal threats" I would encourage you to add it to the database.
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