Comments on: Google cache and libel

By: Michael Roberts

Michael Roberts — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:54:07 +0000

I do not know for sure, but it is my assumption that United Kingdom is a party to the European Union e-commerce directive 2000. If so Google is pretty much covered under article 12.

He is an easy-to-read version on my website:

http://www.rexxfield.com/EU_Directive_on_electronic_commerce.php

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:57:41 +0000

Yeah, ha ha — on that issue we lawyers like to say ‘good cases make bad law’…

By: Adrian Monck

Adrian Monck — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:49:02 +0000

Thanks Russ, Re: authors and responsibility cf the NY Times story today on the rather more hot-button issue of child pornography:

“The I.S.P.s’ point had been, ‘We’re not responsible, these are individuals communicating with individuals, we’re not responsible,’ ” he said, referring to Internet service providers. “Our point was that at some point, you do bear responsibility.”