The website operator defence: will it really make a difference?
Submitted by Alasdair Taylor on Mon, 27/01/2014 - 10:45Website operators facing defamation action over users’ posts can now rely on the new ‘website operator’ defence. To use the defence, the operator must comply with a prescribed process after receiving a notice of complaint about allegedly defamatory material posted online.
The defence follows increasing concerns about defamatory digital content posted by website users – particularly anonymous users. But a critical question is, just how useful and cost effective will the new defence be in practice?
What’s new?
Legal area:
defamation law