Tweet A recent ruling by a U.S. District Judge for the District of Connecticut suggests that a Web site operator may not be entitled to immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”) when hosting certain user generated content. It’s an important decision for any advertiser that solicits creative work from its customers. This dispute centered …
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Mar 01
Can I Be Liable for Forwarding Defamatory Email?
Tweet A California appeals court has weighed in on the sticky question of when the forwarder of a potentially defamatory email loses Communications Decency Act (“CDA”) section 230 immunity. In Hung Tan Phan v. Lang Van Pham, the President of a group of Vietnamese Navy and Merchant Marine veterans sent an email to fellow veterans. In the email, he wrote that another veteran, Hung Tan …
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