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HIS no-hold-barred video blogs have won him thousands of followers on the social networking site YouTube.
But it was precisely this approach that has led to a legal fracas between Sunshine Coast blogger Peter Finn and a Brisbane hotelier.
"Youtuber" Finn has found himself in legal hot water following a day out with dozens of his fellow camera-wielding YouTube "stars".
The November 21 BrizTube event was meant to be the celebration of the year for Queensland's fraternity. But instead, it's left a South Bank hotel owner consulting lawyers after his establishment was panned online by Mr Finn, one of the event organisers.
The dispute is expected to be monitored by bloggers and business owners alike amid warnings of further such cases (So the author of this article is a fortune teller?)
It began when Mr Finn, a computer shop owner who posts video blogs under the name of "Fat Aussie Barstard (sic) [It's THE Fat Aussie Barstard] attacked the South Bank's Plough Inn in an expletive-packed post the day after the event accusing the staff of treating the group poorly.
They had been stopped from filming inside, with the staff saying it was against hotel policy.
Plough Inn owner Dave Argus said he was pursuing a defamation action saying the group had been treated no differently to other partons.
"They go on YouTube and think they are a law unto themselves and just carry on like that with no regards for consequences" Mr Angus said "Unfortunately they have run into us and we are going to nail them"
But Mr Finn has defended his attack saying he was in character
"Because it was a YouTube event, I was at that event and the Fat Aussie Barstard, But we were certainly well behaved" he said. "The Fat Aussie Barstard was voicing his opinion about what happened"
Australian Defamation lawyers principle Barrie Goldsmith said a number of disputes have sparked by information on social networking sites would intensify. He said the firm had clients who were hoteliers or tourism operators who had been attacked on internet sites, particularly YouTube.
But many were stopped from taking legal action by laws preventing corporations with more than 10 employee's from suing, he said.
Written by Kelmeny Fraser
http://dailybooth.com/dct/11067368
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