Everyone from the local fruit & veg shop to the Barrack Obama uses Twitter these days and now the Court Systems appear to be jumping on the band-wagon. London High Court have made an unprecedented ruling by allowing a defendant in a case to be served with an injunction via micro-blogging site Twitter. The order is to be served on behalf of a blogger called Donal Blaney who is pursuing an unknown Twitter user. The user’s name is Blaney’sBlarney, the same name as the blog Blaney uses to express his political opinions. Blaney claims the user is posing as him and is breaching his copyright and intellectual property. The injunction, demanding that the imposter stops posting as Blaney and immediately identifies his or herself has been dubbed “Blaney’s Blarney Order”. As the order is from a different jurisdiction it is not binding on the Irish courts in the same way … There’s more →