Word: libelousness
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Attorney General Chan Sek Keong contended that Lingle was clearly referring to Singapore. At last week's trial, Chan cited cases in which opposition politicians had been sued for libel by government officials and had in some instances been driven into bankruptcy. The article, he said, had to have referred to Singapore...
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...errantly refer to someone as, say, a "Nazi son-of-a-bitch," can your online provider be held responsible? That, in essence, is the issue being decided in state supreme court in New York thanks to a libel suit filed against Prodigy, one of the Big Three online services. A Long Island financial firm claims it was unfairly accused of fraud on a Prodigy bulletin board. Prodigy, like other online service providers, regards itself simply as a conduit through which people communicate - like a telephone company - and thus claims it isn't responsible for postings. The suit, complains a company...
There's more to free speech than sexy words and pictures, of course. Publishers who venture onto international networks like the Internet are particularly concerned about libel and slander. The rules of libel in England, for example, are considerably more restrictive than those in the U.S.; what might be considered a fair crack at a public figure in New York City could be actionable in London. Conversely, the muzzles that are slapped on reporters covering trials in Commonwealth countries can't be placed so easily on writers living abroad, as Canadian officials learned to their dismay last year when foreign...
After losing the case in an earlier trial,New Yorkerwriter Janet Malcolmwas cleared of libel in a lawsuit brought by a psychoanalyst who said she'd made up quotes in an unflattering article about him. A U.S. District Court jury in San Francisco found that two quotes used by Malcolm were indeed false, but it ruled that Jeffrey Masson failed to prove a deliberate or reckless disregard for the truth -- a higher standard that applies to public figures under fire. The 1992 New Yorker article focused on Masson's firing as projects director of the Sigmund Freud Archives. After Masson...