<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Collins</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">This is an interesting case where 'Intermediary Liability' comes to the fore...Its not an open and shut case unfortunately...</span><br>
<br><font face="georgia,serif">The case between Viacom and YouTube comes to mind. Read it on this link:-<br><a href="http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/04/05/court-issues-decision-on-internet-intermediary-liability-in-viacom-v-youtube/">http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/04/05/court-issues-decision-on-internet-intermediary-liability-in-viacom-v-youtube/</a><br>
<br>Regards<br style="font-family:georgia,serif"></font><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Ali Hussein</span><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Collins Areba <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arebacollins@gmail.com" target="_blank">arebacollins@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This is a real life scenario, a client of mine's been bugging me for a solution. <div><br></div><div>Disgruntled someone (unknown at this point) quits an organization, goes to blogger / other google hosted service and unleashes a Dossier entirely intended for maximum PR damage, hiding under the anonymity of the same, goes on to promote the same on twitter as "breaking news", There is no one to serve, Is there a way of dealing with this issue in regard to the same? sue google? <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all">
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