Legal liability for forum comments (was Re: [LINK] The future of Link)

[Sam Stainsby]

Stilgherrian wrote:

>My understanding is that this situation has been clarified somewhat, with
>the law differentiating between material which is "published" (like the
>content of a website), and that which is "ephemeral" (like live chat). But I
>have no idea how that applies to an email-based forum which is then
>archived.
>  
>
I think that anything that ends up on a web page would be "published", 
so that includes LINK. In any case, the distinction would be to test 
whether the case was libel or not, wouldn't it? Because defamation can 
still be verbal (which would be considered "ephemeral", unless recorded 
and published).

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