Press Gazette: European court rejects time limit for online libel claim
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 16:55 via Delicious/martinstabe
Bad news for newspaper web archives: "The Times has failed in its bid to challenge an obscure 160-year-old legal precedent that allows people to sue newspapers for online libel without any time limit. ... The court said it had ruled on the facts of this case alone and would not 'consider in detail the broader chilling effect allegedly created by the application of the internet publication rule'." Read More...
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