>THIS IS FORWRAD MAIL FROM Dave Wyatt
>
>Any member have any views regards liability responsibility on the
>following:
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>The following factors apply.
>
>Web site hosted by an educational establishment for free.
>
>Employee of the educational establishment edits the site on behalf of a
>non profit making group without any specific direction from the group.
>
>Group consists of employees of commercial organisations who fund the
>groups activities via annual subscriptions.
>
>No agreed charter for the group concerning liability.
>
>Site inadvertently publishes material content which becomes subject to a
>legal challenge e.g. Breach of Intellectual property rights, or holds
>personal data without registration e.g. names of delegates and their
>employing company.
>
>Who is liable?
>
>Host, its employee, delegates or their employers.
In my view, the individual placing the illegal material on the site is
liable; the university will also probably be liable if it knew, or had
good reason to know that illegal material was on the site, or was likely to
be put on the site.
Professor Charles Oppenheim
Dept of Information Science
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leics LE11 3TU
Tel 01509-223065
Fax 01509-223053
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