[Commons-Law] Courts extend libel protection for email list editors, webloggers.

[Aniruddha Shankar]

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59424,00.html
9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

basically, the case "differentiates conventional news
media, which can be sued relatively easily for libel,
from certain forms of online communication such as
moderated e-mail lists. One implication is that DIY
publishers like bloggers cannot be sued as easily"

aniruddha / karim shankar

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