[IMC-bristol] Regular meeting - suggestions please

[Ecovillage Network UK]

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Hi all,

Can we please fix up a regular meeting time and date?

comments - -suggestions??

Ta- - - TJ


At 14:38 05/01/03 -0500, legaleagle@spiderlist.com wrote:

>FYI From:
>
>The Guardian Wednesday December 18, 2002
>
>
>"ISPs have the same defence of "innocent dissemination" as any publisher, 
>but once alerted to the presence of defamatory material they become liable 
>if they fail to remove it."
>
>In light of the last part I wonder if it would be expedient to remove the 
>article in advance of Wednesdays meeting?
>
>Also this could be useful:
>
>Defamation Act 1996 (c 31)
>4 July 1996
>SECTION: 1 Responsibility for publication
>DATE-IN-FORCE: 4 September 1996
>
>(1) In defamation proceedings a person has a defence if he shows that--
>
>
>(a) he was not the author, editor or publisher of the statement complained of,
>
>(b) he took reasonable care in relation to its publication, and
>
>(c) he did not know, and had no reason to believe, that what he did caused 
>or contributed to the publication of a defamatory statement.
>
>(2) For this purpose "author", "editor" and "publisher" have the following 
>meanings, which are further explained in subsection (3)--
>
>"
>author" means the originator of the statement, but does not include a 
>person who did not intend that his statement be published at all;
>
>"editor" means a person having editorial or equivalent responsibility for 
>the content of the statement or the decision to publish it; and
>
>"publisher" means a commercial publisher, that is, a person whose business 
>is issuing material to the public, or a section of the public, who issues 
>material containing the statement in the course of that business.
>
>(3) A person shall not be considered the author, editor or publisher of a 
>statement if he is only involved--
>
>
>(a) in printing, producing, distributing or selling printed material 
>containing the statement;
>
>(b) in processing, making copies of, distributing, exhibiting or selling a 
>film or sound recording (as defined in Part I of the Copyright, Designs 
>and Patents Act 1988) containing the statement;
>
>(c) in processing, making copies of, distributing or selling any 
>electronic medium in or on which the statement is recorded, or in 
>operating or providing any equipment, system or service by means of which 
>the statement is retrieved, copied, distributed or made available in 
>electronic form;
>
>(d) as the broadcaster of a live programme containing the statement in 
>circumstances in which he has no effective control over the maker of the 
>statement;
>
>(e) as the operator of or provider of access to a communications system by 
>means of which the statement is transmitted, or made available, by a 
>person over whom he has no effective control.
>
>In a case not within paragraphs (a) to (e) the court may have regard to 
>those provisions by way of analogy in deciding whether a person is to be 
>considered the author, editor or publisher of a statement.
>
>(4) Employees or agents of an author, editor or publisher are in the same 
>position as their employer or principal to the extent that they are 
>responsible for the content of the statement or the decision to publish it.
>
>(5) In determining for the purposes of this section whether a person took 
>reasonable care, or had reason to believe that what he did caused or 
>contributed to the publication of a defamatory statement, regard shall be 
>had to--
>
>(a) the extent of his responsibility for the content of the statement or 
>the decision to publish it,
>
>(b) the nature or circumstances of the publication, and
>
>(c) the previous conduct or character of the author, editor or publisher.
>
>(6) This section does not apply to any cause of action which arose before 
>the section came into force.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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