The Common Reading Program invites you to a presentation
Title: “Social Media and the Law: Do Judges Ever Get It Wrong?”
By: Kimberly Houser, Business Law
Day: Today!
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: Webster 16
If you didn’t know you could be found liable for posting links on your (or your company’s) website, making negative comments on Facebook about someone, or blogging about a new product before it’s released, please attend Kimberly Houser’s Common Reading presentation from her new book “The Legal Guide to Social Media.”
“Many users of social media are not aware of the enormous legal risks involved in their online activities,” says Houser, attorney and clinical associate professor of business law at WSU.
“The idea for this book began a number of years ago when I was searching for a legal guide I could recommend to my law clients who were beginning to set up websites and discovered that there weren’t any such books out there,” Houser says. “I felt that people needed to understand the risks involved in online posting and knew that I could provide that information.”
Common Reading presentations this year are in line with topics from the book Being Wrong, by Kathryn Schulz. The program aims to stimulate academic dialogue around a single book throughout the institution. First-year and other students use the book in classes, and the conversations extends beyond the classroom.
The public is invited to this presentation at no charge.
