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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal
Subject: Re: usenet and legal liability
Message-ID: <2651@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 89 18:01:48 GMT
References: <691@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In article <691@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>, eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes:
> wcn@max.u.washington.edu (W C Newell Jr) writes:
> >he/she will agree to take it on.  Some will accept libel cases based on a
> >percentage of the award, if any.  The first big Internet libel case will
> >probably work like this, with a lot of attendant media publicity.
> 
> 	a lawyer tells me that libel must be spoken, and that
> 	slander is written.  so shouldn't you be saying "slander case"?

Exactly backward.  Libel is derived from the Latin *liber* (book),
and refers to written defamation of character; slander is oral.
Let's hope your memory is defective, and not your lawyer's law degree.

>  ... Steve Elias ; eli@spdcc.com ; 6179325598 ; {}
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