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Liability of ISP's for third party postings to newsgroups — Godfrey v Demon by Kit Burden is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Liability of ISP's for third party postings to newsgroups — Godfrey v Demon about?

As the volume of communication via the Internet by both social and business users continues to rocket upwards, attention has increasingly focused on the role played by Internet service providers (ISP's), in particular in relation to the postings made to the newsgroups and bulletin boards which they operate. Although there have been precedents set by the courts in various countries around the world (including the US and Germany), the UK has not had any case law on these issues.., until now. On 26 March 1999, Mr Justice Morland handed down a judgment in respect of a strike-out application which is likely to reverberate around the Internet community for some time to come.

Who reads Liability of ISP's for third party postings to newsgroups — Godfrey v Demon?

It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Social Sciences.

Author
Kit Burden
Publisher
Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0267-3649)
Published
1999
Language
EN
Field
Social Sciences

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