Can Facebook be sued for live-streaming suicides?
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By Shontavia Johnson, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Drake University. nshepard/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND In January, two different suicides were streamed using Facebook Live, a service that allows Facebook users to create and broadcast real-time videos to their followers. At the end of the month, a third was streamed live using a different service and is still…
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