Defamation Attorney

Dozier Internet Defamation Attorney

The founder of the firm, John W. Dozier Jr., is the author of the "Ten Personas of Scofflaw Bloggers", which you will find on the main Dozier Internet Defamation lawyer website. You will likely find at least one, and perhaps two or three, personality characterists that are driving attacks on your company reputation in this pre-eminent review of the personalities and personas driving the lawlessness of the web. John is rated by other lawyers and judges as having reached the height of professional excellence and the highest levels of skill and integrity (AV rating), is a "SUPER LAWYER" (Law and Policy Magazine) in the law of the Internet, and is a "legal elite" among Virginia attorneys for 2007 in intellectual property. John is licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of Virginia, and he appears nationwide as lead counsel as a defamation attorney pursuing the scofflaws of the web.

Below are some of John's thoughts on the online defamation issue:

It is said that the worst lies are told behind your back. That may be true. Until recently, rumors about businesses have generally been oral, fleeting in nature, and (hopefully) not given much credence. Unfortunately, the dynamics of the rumor mill are changing. Just about everything on the Web, including the good, the bad and the outright lies, are now indexed by search engines.

That leads to problems.

In the online world, rumors or outright lies are receiving unprecedented publicity primarily because Congress granted service providers (those not involved in, or responsible for, the content of a Web site) immunity from liability as publishers of defamatory content. Coupled with the anonymity of the Web, damaging lies are now easier to tell, and it is easier to tell them without getting caught. But these lies don’t just come across to others as baseless rumors. They now have credibility, because they are right there on the Internet to see! And, sometimes, others will appear to have posted similar false claims about the company, giving the appearance of independent validation.

The source of the defamation seems to come from four types of online information purveyors: Weblogs, industry forums or boards, commercial Web sites, and self-proclaimed "consumer protection" sites.

The rule of thumb in identifying the author of defamatory statements when your company is attacked on the Web is to "follow the money." There is almost always a direct economic motivation by the author. Perhaps the responsible party is an affiliate or supplier of a competitor, or the competitor itself. Consider that, recently, an online industry forum was providing customer satisfaction ratings in a seemingly objective manner. It became quickly apparent, however, that the revenue from the site was exclusively banner advertising, and those companies not advertising on the site were getting horribly negative "customer ratings."

Today, it has become a common practice for the defamation attorney pursuing remedies for infringement or defamation on behalf of a business to be itself attacked online. As you can imagine, this can become a very significant problem for a defamation attorney. Find a defamation attorney who is not scared of being attacked or having his firm attacked by the very bloggers giving you problems. Make sure your defamation attorney can take the heat.

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