Sentences with phrase «publishing defamatory»

In a ruling Monday, the California Supreme Court interpreted the U.S. Communications Decency Act of 1996 «literally,» reversing a Court of Appeal ruling, and holding that under the statute internet publishers can not be held liable for publishing defamatory information that originated from another source.

As one critic comments, «not every act of dissemination can or should lead to liability for publishing defamatory matter».

We sued Lawbuzz for publishing defamatory statements made by four of it's anonymous members; and we also included those four members in the suit.

Hudson says that, providing websites and ISPs act in a timely manner to remove of fending content when alerted, the liability for any false allegations will fall squarely on the individual: «Sites that do not routinely edit or moderate content have a degree of protection under the Defamation Act 1996 and the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002, if they did not know and had no reason to believe they were publishing defamatory allegations or private information.»

One of the articles he posted on it contained shallow and deep hyperlinks to other websites, which in turn contained information about C. C sued N on the basis that two of the hyperlinks he created connected to defamatory material, and that by using those hyperlinks, N was publishing the defamatory information.

Other reliefs Mr. Awuah - Darko is seeking includes a perpetual restraining order on the defendants from uttering and publishing any defamatory words against him and also the payment of the cost of his lawyer's fees.

Before publishing these defamatory and misleading statements of and about the Petitioner the Respondents contrary to the Code of Conduct of the Ghana Journalists Association and general journalistic standards neglected or failed to crosscheck their facts with our client.

Nsibiet John who publishes a local newspaper, The Ink, was ordered to be arrested for allegedly publishing defamatory materials against the deputy governor.

The public controversy sparked by her parenting philosophy resulted in a court case in which Gina Ford accused a parenting website of publishing defamatory remarks by readers.

That this was the intention of the 1st defendant, which is made clear by the opening paragraph of the letter which stated that the plaintiff had published defamatory matters concerning it.»

For instance, suppose that in a defamation case, the jury was asked to decide only whether or not the defendant published the defamatory statements about the plaintiff.

The Court ruled that the defendants published the defamatory information for purely corporate reasons i.e. to improve circulation of their media content and to increase views / hits on their web traffic (with the expectation of higher profits).

Just because a person happens to lurk behind a Twitter avatar, rather than a tabloid news desk, does not give them free reign to publish defamatory, prejudicial or otherwise prohibited information online.

Since the use of a hyperlink can not, by itself, amount to publication even if the hyperlink is followed and the defamatory content is accessed, N has not published the defamatory content and C's action can not succeed.

The law also makes it a crime to publish a defamatory statement without the requirement of proving the perpetrator knew it was false, although this carries a shorter maximum sentence of two years.

The federal law makes it an indictable offence for anyone to publish a defamatory statement they know to be false.

Justice Lederman, in granting an injunction order on the same July 13th judgement, recognized the likelihood that the media defendants would continue in their crusade to destroy the reputation of Senator Enverga, saying: «Here, there is an ongoing concern that the defendants will continue to publish defamatory statements about Senator Enverga.

While there might be no specific intention to publish defamatory material, there is a relevant intention by the newsagent to publish the newspaper for the purposes of the law of defamation.

The fair report privilege is a broad privilege afforded to the press to publish defamatory statements so long as the report relies on official public documents or statements by public officials and the report fairly and accurately uses those sources.

In effect, by allowing the defamatory comments to remain on her Facebook page (and indeed, by continuing to participate in the ongoing online series of comments and replies), she encouraged, endorsed, and published those defamatory comments.

The First Amendment does not protect the identity of hackers to the extent it does other anonymous individuals who publish defamatory material online.

In doing so, Williams created the opportunity, and took the risk, Brunning could use its letterhead to publish defamatory material, as it is alleged she did in this case.

The developers of Monero, in their turn, published defamatory posts about the insolvency of Antminer X3.

Croakey does not accept responsibility if guest tweeters publish defamatory comments.

Not exact matches

In return, Schroeder agreed not to talk about his departure to the media or «make, publish or provide, or encourage or induce others to make, publish or provide, any statements, comments, or remarks, whether oral or in writing or electronically transmitted, that are or would reasonably be considered to be disparaging, derogatory, or defamatory, or that criticize Tim Hortons.»

Slanderous remarks are spoken while libelous remarks are written and published (which means defamatory tweets could be considered libelous, not slanderous).

- Post, link to or otherwise publish any Messages containing material that is obscene, racist, homophobic or sexist or that contains any form of hate speech; - Post, link to or otherwise publish any Messages that infringe copyright; - Post, link to or otherwise publish any Messages that are illegal, libellous, defamatory or may prejudice ongoing legal proceedings or breach a court injunction or other order; - Post, link to or otherwise publish any Messages that are abusive, threatening or make any form of personal attack on another user or an employee of Packaging Europe magazine; - Post Messages in any language other than English; - Post the same Message, or a very similar Message, repeatedly; - Post or otherwise publish any Messages unrelated to the Forum or the Forum's topic; - Post, link to or otherwise publish any Messages containing any form of advertising or promotion for goods and services or any chain Messages or «spam»; - Post, link to or otherwise publish any Messages with recommendations to buy or refrain from buying a particular security or which contain confidential information of another party or which otherwise have the purpose of affecting the price or value of any security; - Disguise the origin of any Messages; - Impersonate any person or entity (including Packaging Europe magazine employees or Forum guests or hosts) or misrepresent any affiliation with any person or entity; - Post or transmit any Messages that contain software viruses, files or code designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of the Site or any computer software or equipment, or any other harmful component; - Collect or store other users» personal data; and / or - Restrict or inhibit any other user from using the Forums.

It is prohibited to send any unlawful, threatening, defamatory, indecent, offensive, inciting, pornographic or blasphemous material or any other material that could give rise to liability under civil or criminal law to or from these websites or to publish it on them and UTZ reserves the right to remove any such content without prior warning or notification.

You shall not Post Content that: (1) infringes any proprietary rights of any third party; (2) violates any law or regulation; (3) is defamatory or trade libelous; (4) is harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, intimidating, profane, pornographic, hateful, racially, ethnically or sexually discriminatory or otherwise objectionable in any way or that otherwise violates any right of another; (5) encourages conduct that would violate any conduct prohibited by this Agreement; (6) restricts or inhibits any other user from using the Website; (7) is or amounts to an unsolicited advertisement, promotion, or other form of solicitation; (8) impersonates any person or entity or that directly or indirectly attempts to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the Website or any computer, software, or data of any person, organization or entity that uses or accesses the Website; (9) provides or create links to external sites that violate the Agreement; (10) is intended to harm, exploit, solicit, or collect personally identifiable information of, any individual under the age of 18 («Minor») in any way; (11) invades anyone's privacy by attempting to harvest, collect, store, or publish private or personally identifiable information without their foreknowledge and willing consent or distributes or contains viruses or any other technologies that may harm the Website or any of its users; (12) is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third - party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from the rightful owner to post the material and to grant Non-GMO Project all of the license rights granted herein; and / or (13) contains or promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work.

Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.

An order of perpetual injunction is also being sought to restrain the defendant from writing, printing and publishing further words and defamatory statements against her.

An order of the Honourable Court directed at the Defendant to publish a retraction and an apology with the same prominence as the defamatory words on his Facebook page as well as one publication in the Daily Graphic.

According to the lawyers, until the court restrained the paper, it will further «publish or cause to be published the said or similar words defamatory of the plaintiffs», as it has threatened to publish stories about the plaintiffs.

Melania Trump filed a libel lawsuit against the publisher of The Daily Mail, contending that it published an article that contained «false and defamatory statements,» including that she was once an escort.

«Consequent upon the above, it is our client's instruction that we demand from you published retraction of the said defamatory piece in three national newspapers inclusive of your own,» Yari said.

He is also praying for an order compelling the defendants, including Attorney - General of the Federation Abubakar Malami (SAN), to publish a full retraction of the defamatory publications and to apologize to him.

Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.

We love hearing from you, but please note that we don't publish comments that are promotional / commercial, defamatory, discriminatory, contain profanity or personal information.

We reserve the right not to publish or print defamatory or destructive content.

The Nonfiction Authors Association does not publish political or religious content, anything defamatory, or purely promotional posts.

iii) disclosing, sharing or publishing material that may be offensive, defamatory, regulated, copyrighted, incorrect, untrue, prohibited, infringing or damaging to any person; or

Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.

Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, derogatory, defamatory, infringing, improper, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.

Further, you must not publish, post, upload, transmit, distribute or disseminate content that Koch Media determines is beyond the acceptable level of content Koch Media has set for the game such as content that is illegal, harmful, abusive, threatening, vulgar, distasteful, sexually explicit, political, defamatory, obscene, embarrassing, unwanted, rude, hateful or racially, ethnically, sexually, or, in a reasonable person's view, otherwise offensive or objectionable, or encourage others to do so.

The decision references a previous case in which «the court found that certain published comments were not defamatory because they were so ludicrous and outrageous as to be unbelievable and therefore incapable of lowering the reputation of the plaintiff in the minds of right - thinking persons.»

Since December 2014 the website has published a huge amount of misleading and often defamatory content attacking anyone supporting renewable energy, he says.

Basically, the question is whether someone who posts a link to a defamatory publication has him / her / itself published a defamation.

Could these criteria be applied in cases where the defamatory content was published on the internet?

In order to establish that a particular statement — written or spoken — is defamatory, it must be proved that it is false, defamatory and published and lowered the reputation of a specific person or an identifiable set of people in the eyes of the general public.

However, search results are effectively a presentation of links to material published elsewhere and as our own Supreme Court noted in the context of liability for defamatory publications, an internet bereft of links is not much of an internet at all: