Re: UKNM: Legal Responsibility of Content

[Stefan Magdalinski]

Danny O'Brien wrote:

> 

> On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 06:54:16PM +0100, Ray Taylor wrote:

> > >You could well be right. I'm no legal-eagle, perhaps someone could

> > >enlighten us on what would happen if a guest on a TV/radio talk show

> > >slandered or libeled a 3rd party. Would the broadcaster be liable, or the

> > >guest, or both?


<schnipp!>


> But, Criminy, Ray -  suppose that with an entirely new area like this, comes

> an obligation above the letter of the law - to attempt to rethink and

> reposition the libel laws to provide more sensible redress? It's not, for

> instance, beyond the realms of credibility that you might be asked one day to

> give an expert opinion as to whether a mailing list like this *should* be

> viewed as a publication. Think what you like, Ray, but I'd hope that

> personally you'd actually access an opinion, rather than just leave it to a

> blundering court who - let's be honest - wouldn't know an e-mail if it jumped

> up and infected their learned faces with the ebola variant of the good news

> virus. That way, one day, suing Sam would be seen as insane as suing Ken

> Morse, rostrum cameraman, and we could all live happily ever after.

> 

> But enough of this heavy stuff. What's your favourite banner ad?

> 


ohh. here I think:



http://caliginous.com/party/pimp-ad.gif


and here:



http://caliginous.com/party/bt-ad.gif


stefx

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