Re: Question from a Student

Agreed that it this is more of a privacy issue, but it reminds me quite a bit of the "dog poop girl"
(http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=363&objectid=10371923).   This girl may be understandably quite bothered because of the history of personal attacks in her country.

I'm certainly no expert, but a quick search turned up at least one successful libel action against an American organization (Kwon Sun-Jong v Newsweek, Seoul Civil District Court Appellate Division, 1994). It is unclear, however whether such an action would be enforced by courts in the US.

A good (pre-internet) resource on privacy law in South Korea might be "Press Law in South Korea" by Kuy Ho Youm (1996).

IANAL,
-John Thomson

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PhD Student
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Wisconsin-Madison

http://johnthomson.org/



Halbert, Debora wrote:


> Hello, 

> 

> Sorry for the cross-posting, but I'm wondering if anyone has any

> specific insights I could forward to this student.  His situation seems

> to raise some interesting questions but I am in no position to really

> answer them (minus the bit about 'rights as an American citizen.'  

> 

> Thanks 

> 

> Debbie Halbert

> Otterbein College

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Kim, Andrew 

> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 6:27 PM

> To: Halbert, Debora 

> Subject: I have a law question.

> 

> 

> Hello, sorry to bother you. I have a law question that really baffles

> me.

> 

> Recently I have posted a youtube clip that I took from another country.

> Just in a matter of weeks, it has gotten HUGE views, mostly from the

> foriegn country I was in. I flimed a guy and a girl fighting in a public

> place. Apparently the girl messaged me through youtube and said that she

> called interpol and is threatening to sue me....FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY, IF

> I dont delete that video! can she even do that???? Should I delete the

> video for my own sake? Wouldn't my rights as an American citizen protect

> me from her? By the way this country was South Korea.

> 

> Thank you for your time.

> 

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