Statute of limitations applies online
p2pnet.net News:- Online freedom of speech has received a powerful boost in Texas where US district judge David Godbey ruled the one-year statute of limitations clock starts when an article first appears, and ends a year later, even if it’s still available on the Net.
"The ruling is important because it allows Internet publishers – not limited to newspapers – to engage in the free exchange of ideas without being exposed to defamation claims based on articles viewable in the present but first posted to the Internet years earlier,” the Associated Press has lawyer Russell Coleman saying.
"In dismissing the suit against The Dallas Morning News, personal finance columnist Scott Burns and parent company Belo, Godbey wrote that he ’sees no rational reason for distinguishing between the Internet and other forms of traditional mass media’," says the story, adding:
"Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks in Austin dismissed a libel suit by a man who claimed he was defamed by an online article posted three years ago."
Also See:
Associated Press – Judge in libel suit says 1-year statute of limitations applies to Web , October 18, 2006
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