Grimmelmann — Lawyers, Blogs, and Money
posted by Donald Braman
James Grimmelmann has an interesting post about the problems that (might) arise when legal scholars mix blogging with money. Curious what all of you think of this point: “Perhaps no posts have suffered from sponsorship, but it’s in the nature of such conflicts of interest that I might never see the damage. Indeed, the damage can take place without anyone at all being consciously aware of it.” I’ve had informal conversations with legal bloggers (not of this blog) where generating money for the time they put in was a significant (which is not to say the primary) issue that they paid attention to. Again, though, again, it wasn’t clear whether this was, on net, a bad thing. Anyway, this whole post is just an excuse to get you to click this link — just be sure to let them know I sent you!
UPDATE: Jon Garfunkel rightly calls my attention to the fact that Frank Pasquale responded to James over at the laboratorium.
January 17, 2008 at 11:48 pm
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