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: Info/LawNinth Circuit Rules Roommates.com May Be Unlawful Host
By Tim Armstrong, Derek Bambauer, and William McGeveran.
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The Ninth Circuit has just ruled (en banc) that the Roommates.com Web site is not entitled to immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. (Props to Eric Goldman for the link!) The opinion, by Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, is typically lucid and holds, essentially, that Roommates falls outside the safe harbor because it creates (or at least induces the creation of) some of the content on the site. I see two fun aspects to the ruling on first read: its implications for Web developer read more
Full post as published by Info/Law on April 03, 2008 (boomark / email).
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