Defamation

6 June 2012 at 10:57am
That seems to be the rather depressing message from the European Court of Justice to websites that allow third parties to post content (e.g. the comments on this blog). Article 14 of the European eCommerce Directive says that those hosts are protected from liability for the content until they are aware of specific infringements of the law. Once aware, they must act expeditiously to deal with the problem.
4 July 2012 at 5:00pm
I've just submitted a JANET(UK) response to the Ministry of Justice's consultation on a draft Defamation Bill. In fact my comments don't relate to the current draft Bill, but to a longer-term part of the consultation paper (pp 40-47) on whether any changes are needed to the law of liability for Internet intermediaries.
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