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David Mirchin has published a Client Update which analyzes a recent case in the United States on website liability, including a brief comparison to Israeli and EU law, and some suggestions how you can avoid liability.

It used to be that websites had complete immunity in the United States from claims that content posted by third party users was defamatory. In Barnes v. Yahoo!, an important recent case in the 9th Circuit, however, the court held that Yahoo! could be liable for defamatory content posted by a user which they promised to take down, but did not.

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Meitar Information Technology Client Update on new broad-reaching Israeli Anti-Spam Law.

David Mirchin has published a client update on the new Israeli Anti-Spam Law, which becomes effective December 1, 2008. According to the law, entities will only be able to send commercial email, faxes or SMS, or use automated phone calling, if they obtain explicit, written, advance approval from the recipient. Violations are punishable by stiff fines, and officers of a company, as well as those responsible for the marketing or advertising operations, are personally liable for violations of the law.

The full update is available through the PDF icon.

In this article, originally published in Newsidic, Newsletter of the European Association of Information Services in September 1997, David Mirchin, then Vice President & General Counsel of SilverPlatter Information, analyzes the new European Union Database Directive, which creates a new sui generis intellectual property protection for non-copyrightable databases.

The full update is available through the PDF icon.