Loic points that blogging can be a risk for its author if he does not comply with a few rules. Therefore i realize it is necessary to add a legal mention to my blog in order to be protected against “risky” readers comments/ trackbacks. Indeed bloggers can be considered as legally responsible for what they publish but also for allowing 3rd party comments/trackbacks to be published on their blog . For example someone put a trackback on one of mypost redirecting to an free p2p music plateform: out of the fact the trackback was totally irrelevant to my post it was an illegal redirect. I did not see it right away but deleted it as soon i was aware of that.
I already published my personnal details. Because it is legally required. I also started to write a legal mention, but i believe it would be better if a lawyer or even Typepad could help us, bloggers, in providing a standard legal text to be published on our blogs in order to define our responsibility and protect us in case of conflict.
Here is what i started to write
“All readers comments/trackbacks are automatically published through Typepad plateform once posted by their authors without systematic and immediate control of the publisher of this blog. These comments are under the reponsibility of their authors and are not engaging the author and publisher of this blog.
If the published comments, once they are brought to the attention of the author and publisher of this blog, were considered as counterfeiting civilian or criminal laws the author of this blog can decide to delete them without notice”
Please feel free to comment/amend/ suggest.
Finally I think also it could be helpful to have a tool that alert bloggers when a comment/trackback is posted so we can know it quickly (without going back to your blog every 5 min) and most of all so we can have more control on what is appearing on your blog (feature to be added to my blog desktop optimizer)
Of course you can also decide that the comment is not published automatically but i think this is a less good option for readers.
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