Legal Research on Usenet Liability Issues
Dick Dunn
rcd at opus.UUCP
Wed Jan 30 16:09:28 AEST 1985
Egad! With all due respect to the Great American Legal Tradition of
Gratuitous Polysyllabic Obfuscation, this article takes several thousand
words to tell us:
USENET is different; there isn't any legal precedent to show just
what potential liabilities exist.
Adding some detail:
It has some elements of a "common carrier" and some of a
"broadcaster"; thus it is affected by precedents for these two.
But didn't we already know that???
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Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086
...Never offend with style when you can offend with substance.
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