By Renee Foster,The Spectrum Groups' Director of Media and Public Relations,
Start-up companies, Professionals, Large Companies, and Individuals need attorney law groups that have a proven track record of success.
Before you publish, promote, or market your Brand (identity), You need to know or have an idea of what constitutes a proven case, if ever faced with infringement or defamation. Knowing what constitutes "admissible evidence", when protecting your creations, in addition to, proving a case (making sure sure you can avoid your solid, credible, truthful evidence from being dismissed as "hearsay" with credible expert testimony, and witnesses)..... is key.
Class action suits are an option. Maybe.Maybe Not. Sometimes you have to go after corporations, employees, and individuals for their contributions.
Remember. Admissible evidence is key. Getting the right organization and attorneys to represent you is also key.
Businesses and individuals should require an Internet lawyer who is recognized for experience, expertise and client service handling handling in virtually all aspects of Internet law issues like:
Complex Litigation
Internet Defamation
Trade Secret Law
Internet Law
Trademark Law
Patent Law
Cyber-squatting Law
Non-Compete Law
When you start using a service on the Internet, or doing business make sure you read the fine print of the "Terms of the Service Agreement" and if its fair, then use the service. Be sure to have the corporate office number, address, and know who the legal counsel is that represents those in which you are doing business with and.....last but not least, don't let the statutes of limitations pass you by. And be careful......Interpretation of the law is tricky!!!!
Dozier: defamation lawyer
According to Dozier, "It's a shame some people mislead the public by appearing to be an objective, fair and accurate custodian of information, but fail so miserably in the ethics of fair and honest reporting I wonder how long it will take before they get their database right."
Lastly, Get this application to screenshot all your activities and place on an external device to avoid remote access to your system, or removal, deletion, of your files. Anna Sims‑Phillips recently expressed 'that this world is filled with Sharks and you've got to "roll with the sharks" to survive'.
Dozier represents cases like these:
A prominent online business was targeted on a weblog through internet defamation, and the posts escalated to the point that death threats were being made and a map to the company headquarters was posted. Google had indexed the blog in the first position whenever someone searched for our client.
A small business was defamed by a competitor launching a website and going so far as to post a portion of the owner's credit report.
A world-renowned professional in a controversial subject matter found that a website was publishing false claims about him, damaging his reputation and credibility. Since he was often an expert commentator on TV, this was a significant problem that had to be addressed.
A former employee launched a website attacking our international client.
An ex-girlfriend published false information about her boyfriend's company, which was indexed by search engines.
Industry bulletin board posts from a former customer claimed that our client was running a "scam" operation.
A consumer protection "review" site seemed to always return extremely negative and detailed reviews of any company not advertising on the site.
An unhappy customer launched an extensive website critical of our client, including false and misleading claims and altered documents.
A nationally recognized speaker was defamed on a series of "review sites" surreptitiously run and controlled by competitors and indexed high on the major search engines.
A prominent University professor was told of a site with his name and photograph falsely claiming the he was a convicted pedophile.
A long established and upstanding franchise company was attacked on scam reporting sites by a disgruntled former franchise holder.
A foreign government listed our client on a government agency website selling unregistered securities when the investment/venture fund was not required to register under the law.
A joint venture fell apart, and a disturbed participant used the web to attack our client by launching a derogatory replica of our client's site and advertising it through a pay per click campaign.
A dissatisfied distributor of our client's products used a copy of the client's e-mail customer list to send out defamatory emails to all of the client's customers.
Our European client was defamed on a website chat board in the US despite clear liability under UK law for the publication of such information accessible by its UK customers.
A former employee initiated a "spam" campaign involving the mailing of millions of emails purporting to be from our client, resulting in a deluge of irate responses and threats as well as ISP blacklisting.
Competing companies started posting links to state consumer affairs offices trying to get an investigation undertaken of our client.
Dissatisfied customers of our client decide to publish defamatory statements that quickly show up on the first page of organic Google results.
Our client's business was initially referred to by a popular blogger as a "scam", an inaccurate description requiring immediate attention since the results were showing up at the top of Google's results.
A business was told it would have to pay a very significant amount of money for a defamatory posting to be removed from a rip off reporting site.
A fast growing web company had a disgruntled employee go directly to several federal agencies, potentially resulting in the initiation of an investigation.
An internet company was sued for a declaratory judgment on the West Coast resulting from our client's complaints about defamatory posts and threats of legal action before we were hired.
The major business bureau issued a fraud warning on our client, threatening the existence of its business, without having conducted adequate due diligence and appropriate analysis to fully understand the nature of the business.
An unknown party was posting a photograph and defamatory statements about our client, a well known internet businessman, leading to embarrassing questions and inconvenience.
Our client, a leading international physician, was faced with a disgruntled former patient undertaking a web based campaign to impugn his reputation.
The President of an online marketing company was in the "cross hairs" of a former client. The former client launched a site dedicated to attacking our client's business and posted links on a major scam website to his personal site, demanding money to take it down.
A high profile lawyer had been under investigation in the late 1990s in connection with fraudulent transactions. No charges were ever brought, but the original newspaper articles (with inaccuracies) remained on the web for all the world to see, highly indexed in Google results.
Our client, a former high profile US government lawyer, launched a new web business supporting our troops in Iraq and a new “scam review site” was launched falsely complaining about his product before any product was distributed or sold.
An internationally renowned musician hired us because a website owned by lawyers representing food industry personnel had false posts about his restaurant’s practices.
A plastic surgeon was the victim of false allegations relating to a nose job and related extortion demands.
A prominent medical industry forum and website was used by an employee of a major medical company to falsely allege improprieties by our client who was a fellow employee.
A top athlete in a niche sport was the subject of false and damaging statements on the industry forum.
A syndicated radio and television personality was under attack by an obsessed blogger turned website owner who was launching new websites dedicated to attacking our client with false and malicious accusations.
A realtor selling a real estate tycoon’s condominium project was targeted and attacked online by a disgruntled purchaser.
Look for this identity when considering a defamation suit:
Sources
Legal Group
Legal Counsel Library
The Importance of Persistence
Admissible Evidence
Amazon Property-Class Action Suit?
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