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*** liability here = Pottery Barn rule. You take responsibility for what's offered to you by a third party. You (e.g., a newspaper) are on the hook for publishing a letter to the editor as if you had drafted it yourself. | *** liability here = Pottery Barn rule. You take responsibility for what's offered to you by a third party. You (e.g., a newspaper) are on the hook for publishing a letter to the editor as if you had drafted it yourself. There's some wiggle room if you properly frame the defamatory material. But generally this creates a pretty strict editing regime. | ||
** bookseller/distributor | ** bookseller/distributor |
Revision as of 15:30, 4 January 2008
The Net Security Problem
- Is it just about viruses, or does it raise a more fundamental problem?
Defamation overview
- Defamation = false statement + conveyed to 3rd party + harm to reputation of Ï
- Remedies:
- Damages
- Injunctions (worrisome, given 1st Amendment implications)
On to intermediaries
- Hourglass architecture
- Cloud
- types of intermediaries:
- publisher
- liability here = Pottery Barn rule. You take responsibility for what's offered to you by a third party. You (e.g., a newspaper) are on the hook for publishing a letter to the editor as if you had drafted it yourself. There's some wiggle room if you properly frame the defamatory material. But generally this creates a pretty strict editing regime.
- bookseller/distributor
- publisher