Re: UKNM: Libel (was Lastminute.com...website or webhype?)

[Ian Betteridge]

on 6/1/00 4:33 pm, James Gordon-MacIntosh at

james [dot] gmacintoshfishburn-hedges [dot] co [dot] uk

 wrote:


 > My understanding was always that it is based on knowledge. Demon were in the

 > clear until it was established that the publisher may have been aware of the

 > libellous posting but had not taken steps to have comments removed.


Technically, lack of knowledge is no defence. However, prompt removal

usually means you'll get anyway it.


Demon insisted it was not responsible for the content carried over its

network, just as BT is not responsible for anything you say on the phone

(slander someone over the phone, and you can't sue BT; libel someone in a

newspaper, you can sue the writer, paper, and printer etc). The judge

disagreed.


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