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2001/04/00: "Watch That Last Step-Down" (Letter to the Editor), Car
Collector, April 2001, at 6-7
"[Y]our January 2001 issue was not only the greatest but also an
encyclopedia of lore. . . . Where do I start? . . . Savell outdid
himself."
Spring 2001: "Faultlines," AI Magazine, Spring 2001 (formerly
at http://www.ai-magazine.org/spring01/faultlines4.htm)
Cites article from Editors Only available on this website
2001/09/15: "Two Steps to Safer Web Links,"
Folio : The Magazine for Magazine Management, September 15, 2001, at 9
"Hot links and Web site addresses are an easy and popular value-added
service to surfers, and are popping up everywhere on magazines' Internet
pages. But, says Lawrence Savell, counsel in the New York office of Chadbourne
& Parke LLP, carrying those URLs, linking to independent Web sites, and
letting non-affiliated Internet entities use your magazine's Internet address
can be a risky proposition. Not only can users become distracted and turn to a
competitor for information, there's also the question of liability: Any Web
site that carries links of other URLs runs the risk of being held in some way
accountable for content not created by the site. A perfectly reputable source
could, for example, have not-- so-publicized connections to an Internet
gambling organization. 'You have to be conscious of everything that's out
there,' warns Savell. 'You don't want to be drawn into a time-consuming and
expensive lawsuit.'
"Publishers who decide to carry such links should take two relatively easy
precautions, says Savell. First, post a simple disclaimer on the bottom of
your site announcing that linked sites are in no way affiliated with the
magazine. 'People need to know that, although you are linking to a specific
Web site or that it is linking to yours, you're doing it only as a courtesy
and you don't endorse the site in any way,' says Savell. Second, draw up an
agreement resolving all copyright, logo and associated issues, and require
administrators of linked Web sites to sign it. 'By doing these things, you're
basically saying "enter at your own risk" and "we wash our hands of
responsibility concerning the other site,"' explains Savell. 'This is one case
where an ounce of prevention is really worth it.'"
2001/12/01: "Watch Those Letters To the Editor,"
Folio : The Magazine for Magazine Management, December 1, 2001, at 10
"Although feedback from readers is always important to a fair and balanced
magazine, says Lawrence Savell, an attorney with Chadbourne & Parke LLP,
letters can present a variety of legal issues for a title. 'A publisher
could face potential liability if, for example, the letter were obscene,
libeled someone or invaded another's privacy--assuming that all of the
elements of the claims were established,' he explains. In order to avoid
a sticky legal situation, an editor can, of course, choose not to print any
feedback at all. But for those who do decide to run reader input, Savell
offers a few tips.
"First, editors should exercise discretion--and common sense--when selecting
which letters to run. Second, says Savell, 'the staff should verify that
letters received truly are from those from whom they purport to be; obviously,
don't run those that cannot be so verified.' Third, editors should
publish a set of conditions under which the title accepts letters for
consideration, and indicate that submission of a letter constitutes agreement
to those terms. Such terms might include that the magazine is under no
obligation to print letters, that the staff has the right to edit them, and
that anything submitted will not be returned. And, adds Savell: 'A disclaimer
advising readers that the letters represent the opinions and views of their
writers--and not necessarily those of the magazine--might also be useful.'"
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