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Don't Host It Girl.com?

Alan Massengale, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, UC-Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Ha, October 27, 2006
Abstract: Can the owners of websites whose users post intimate and salacious details about the personal lives of others be held liable for libel?
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High court justices sound cool toward Internet libel case

Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, September 6, 2006
Abstract: The California Supreme Court showed little inclination Tuesday to allow suits against Internet service providers such as Google and Yahoo by people who claim they were libeled online.
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Dow Jones Must Defend Action on Web Defamation in Australia, Dow Jones Newswire, December 10, 2002
Abstract: MELBOURNE, Australia -- Business news publisher Dow Jones & Co. will have to defend a defamation action in Australia's Victoria State after the nation's High Court unanimously rejected its appeal to have the case heard in the U.S. Melbourne businessman Joseph Gutnick has alleged he was defamed in an October 2000 article that appeared in Dow Jones's New York-based Barron's magazine and was also made available on the Internet (the Barron's Web site is www.barrons.com). The decision has potentially major ramifications for Internet publishing world-wide.

It's bloody hard to run a forum (in Sweden), Drew Cullen, The Register, March 8, 2002

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