HTFP: Court ruling ‘clarifies law on user-generated content’
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 08:50 via Delicious/martinstabe
"As soon as Newsquest received the legal claim from Mr Karim, the readers' comments were removed from the websites concerned. Mr Justice Eady concluded that Newsquest websites were acting as hosts of the reader comments for the purposes of Regulation 19 of the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 and therefore would not be liable for any damages even if the material was unlawful." Read More...
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