> - slander, libel, and copyright liability for active moderators (like
> newspapers, based on the Prodigy case)
The Congress specifically reversed the Prodigy case via 47 USC 230 which
says:
"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be
treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided
by another information content provider.
I am not aware of any case law that interprets this, though.
Note this affects libel and slander, not copyright violations. The DMCA
has lots to say about copyrighted material on web sites, but nothing that
applies directly to mailing lists.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
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