Publisher Protection

By Michael Becker | Published: November 21, 2006

The New York Time reported today that the California Supreme Court determined Internet publishers could not be held accountable for defamatory comments posted to their sites. The decision says that plaintiffs may only sue the original source of the comment: the author, not Yahoo! or Google.

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