Tort Liability from UW

January 10th, 2008 at 10:51am Chris Tugwell Permalink

Any website featuring content posted by both the site administrators and users should be aware of their tort liability; YouthCommons is no exception. This memo focuses on the tort of defamation under Wash. State law and the related Federal law, including brief description of both. Although the users of YouthCommons may be liable for content posted on the site, as a neutral service provider, YouthCommons itself is probably protected by the federal law described below… read entire document
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