Regardless of the type of blog you write or the size of your blog audience, there are legal issues all bloggers need to understand and follow. These legal issues are in addition to theblogging rules that bloggers should follow if they want to be accepted into the blogging community and have a chance for their blogs to grow.
If your blog is public and you don't want to get into legal trouble, then you need to keep reading and learn about the legal issues for bloggers listed below. Ignorance isn't a viable defense in a court of law. The onus is on the blogger to learn and follow laws related to online publishing. Therefore, follow the suggestions listed below, and always check with an attorney if you're not sure if it's legal to publish specific content or not. When in doubt, don't publish it.
Copyright Legal Issues
Copyright laws protect the original creator of a work, such as written text, an image, a video, or an audio clip, from having that work stolen or misused. For example, you can't republish another person's blog post or article on your blog and claim it as your own. That's plagiarism and a copyright violation. Furthermore, you can't use an image on your blog unless you created it, have permission to use it from the creator, or the image has been copyrighted by the owner with a license that allows you to use it.
There are a variety of copyright licenses with different restrictions of how, where, and when images and other copyrighted materials can be used on your blog. Follow the link to learn more about copyright licenses, including the exceptions to copyright law that come under the umbrella of "fair use" which is a gray area of copyright law.
The safest and most convenient options for bloggers when it comes to finding images, video, and audio content for their blogs is to use sources that provide royalty-free licensed works or works licensed with Creative Commons licenses. For example, there are many websites where you can find images that are safe for you to use on your blog.
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