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July 02, 2003
Libel cover
Bloggers who republish potentially libellous information gleaned elsewhere have been protected from being sued by a new court ruling in the US. According to
Online Journalism Review, "
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on June 24th that First Amendment protections against libel will be extended to information that is republished through outlets like e-mail lists and weblogs."
Wired News has the story at
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59424,00.html.
Posted by belinda at July 2, 2003 10:10 AM