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Victory for Site Owners: Wikimedia wins landmark defamation lawsuit in France
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11-03-2007, 11:15 AM,
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Victory for Site Owners: Wikimedia wins landmark defamation lawsuit in France
Quote:A French court has ruled that Wikipedia could not be held responsible for content posted by its users in a landmark ruling for the Internet giant, officials said Friday. full article: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnew...e_id=98500 The US has a similar law (U.S.C. §§ 230) - although people still attempt to intimidate site owners into giving up their legal rights by threatening site owners with legal action for content posted by users (our policy is to forward copies of these intimidation attempts -which usually arrive in the form of badly written C&Ds - to places like Chilling Effects). |
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