Here’s an article that I’ve written for Reputation Online based on a presentation by media litigator Gideon Benaim, partner, Schillings Lawyers, at the CIPR Reputation Management conference in Manchester last month.

Mr Benaim made the case that social media is not beyond the reach of copyright, defamation or privacy laws. He cited cases where injunctions had been served on multiple ISPs as a defensive strategy to avoid the publication of sensitive corporate material and cautioned that rapid response was crucial.