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Thursday, July 03, 2003

More Coverage Of The Batzel Decision

AP writer Juliana Barbassa, "Sites win blogger ruling:"

Other cases have said commercial service providers on the Internet are not responsible for information posted by a third party. And this decision says non-commercial Web site hosts are only liable when they post information that a reasonable person would have known wasn't meant to be published.

The decision is a relief for bloggers and other online publishers.

Good quotes from Jeralyn Merritt—who writes the excellent Talk Left blog— too, check it out.


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