Internet Defamation Legal Information Law

Includes background information on the relevant laws, details of notable cases, and analysis of whether system operators are liable for defamatory comments made by on their system.

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• The Law of Defamation and the Internet - Recent legal developments, prepared by an Australian barrister.
• Defamation on the Internet - In this paper David F. Sutherland identifies developments respecting the legal information application of defamation law to the Internet.
• Libel and Defamation in the Information Age - Eric Eden\\'s article concludes with "The reality is that libel and defamation laws are enforceable in the virtual world just like they are in the real world".
• Wired 4.03: Libel Law - Let It Die - Arguing that it might be better if libel laws were defamation abolished.
• Defamation in Canadian Cyberspace - Covers defenses against charges of defamation, \\'cyberlibel\\', and the question of liability -- all in the context of Canadian law.
• Yahoo Groups: Cyberlibel-and-E-mail - Archive and joining information for an e-mail discussion list for internet persons concerned with libel on the Internet.
• Defamation Havens - Brian Martin\\'s paper claims that "The Net provides legal information an effective means of responding to Net defamation legal information and for publishing material that the mass media legal information are afraid to touch". [First Monday magazine.]
• Should Audio-Visual Defamation on the Internet be Treated as Libel or Slander? - Analysis by Zenas Zelotes of the University of defamation Iowa College internet of Law.
• Defamation and the Internet - Includes background information on the relevant laws, details legal information of notable cases, and analysis of whether system legal information operators are liable for defamatory comments made by legal information on their system.
• Online Defamation - Archive of decisions and litigation provided by the internet AOL Legal Department.
• Roger Clarke's 'Defamation on the Web' - Comprehensive analysis of whether the act of placing defamation a document on a web-site constitutes publication in defamation the jurisdictions into which the document is subsequently defamation downloaded.

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