Comments on: Online freedom of speech http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4168 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:56:06 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4168/comment-page-1#comment-10950 Reader's Write Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:28:59 +0000 #comment-10950 I'm not sure what the legal definition of periodical is but it might require a physical medium... Myself, I was rather inching towards the "news agency or wire service". It could be argued that a blogs provide news and that a reposity for bloggers would be an agency... The bloggers would then at least be an "other person who gathers, edits, photographs, records, prepares, or disseminates news or information for such an entity". I’m not sure what the legal definition of periodical is but it might require a physical medium…

Myself, I was rather inching towards the “news agency or wire service”.
It could be argued that a blogs provide news and that a reposity for bloggers would be an agency…

The bloggers would then at least be an “other person who gathers, edits, photographs, records, prepares, or disseminates news or information for such an entity”.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4168/comment-page-1#comment-10942 Reader's Write Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:08:19 +0000 #comment-10942 Under section (A) (i) - "other periodicals" as a blog could easily be considered an electronic journal, published (on the web) at regular intervals. Even if "regular" is defined as something being done "In conformity with a fixed procedure, principle, or discipline" (e.g. only reporting news when there is news to report) it would be way over requirement of something "Occurring at fixed intervals", which in it self does not exclude infrequent blog entries (as a blogger may have their OWN schedule for posting). Thoughts? Under section (A) (i) – “other periodicals” as a blog could easily be considered an electronic journal, published (on the web) at regular intervals.

Even if “regular” is defined as something being done “In conformity with a fixed procedure, principle, or discipline” (e.g. only reporting news when there is news to report) it would be way over requirement of something “Occurring at fixed intervals”, which in it self does not exclude infrequent blog entries (as a blogger may have their OWN schedule for posting).

Thoughts?

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