Re: UKNM: Legal Responsibility of Content

[Ian Betteridge]

>The last legal action I recall on this subject did suggest something along

>these lines although I don't know whether it would stand up now. The

>alternative scenario, which I may well have to now put in place is for each

>person signing up to the list to be sent terms and conditions for use of

>the list with a much more tightly defined list policy. I've seen this done

>on a couple of American lists, but only a couple.


I can't see this kind of agreement having any kind of force in UK law.

Suppose, for example, that a paper publisher was to include, as part of its

commissions, a clause that stated that the writer was responsible for any

potential libel... it wouldn't wash.


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