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You might want to read this http://www.nypost.com/seven/01062009/news/regionalnews/model_snared_in_ugly_web_147440.htm
If you live in the USA anyone can sue you for anything.
As I understand it – typically you cannot be sued for items posted on your forums by OTHER people as long as you did not actively moderate the thread, post in question.
(Basically – you didn’t know about it)BUT you do have a responsibility for moderation – and if you are informed of defamatory information on your website (including your forum) then you do have a legal requirement to act. Ignoring it – could then open you up to action.
This is the defence that websites like YouTube.com and Blogger.com and the like have regarding copyrighted content appearing. They are conduits – and not immediately responsible – but they have to act when breaches are pointed out.
I got this understanding from a couple of techy podcasts I listened to within the last six months where they were talking with journolists, bloggers and lawyers and they made a specific distinction between content on your site / and user content on your forums etc.
Hope it helps.
:hattip:Thanks guys – I think things like this have to get more and more important because the law has to keep up with technology – I also think we often forget how responsible we are for providing honest and decent information as webmasters/media owners as people genuinely trrust what we have on our sites but that is a whole other conversation
@TheGooner 193161 wrote:
As I understand it – typically you cannot be sued for items posted on your forums by OTHER people as long as you did not actively moderate the thread, post in question.
(Basically – you didn’t know about it)Really??? Senior Beer Member? How does one even become an apprentice
I believe the blogger precedent has been set that if a comment is left on a forum or blog you own, you would not be legally responsible for the the comment. But with that being said Alex did ask the question
With these all the content we generate for these we have to be sure is true otherwise we run the risk of being sued.
And I again say from experience one can be sued for anything under the sun. Even though it might never make it to court there are expenses involved.
