Citizen Media Law Project - http://www.citmedialaw.org/
Aims to provide education, guidance and case studies relating to free speech, defamation and other related topics. |
Defamation and the Internet - http://www-cs-education.stanford.edu/classes/cs201/Projects/defamation-and-the-internet/
Includes background information on the relevant laws, details of notable cases, and analysis of whether system operators are liable for defamatory comments made by on their system. |
Defamation Havens - http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_3/martin/
Brian Martin's paper claims that "The Net provides an effective means of responding to Net defamation and for publishing material that the mass media are afraid to touch". [First Monday magazine.] |
Defamation in Canadian Cyberspace - http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/defamation/
Covers defenses against charges of defamation, 'cyberlibel', and the question of liability -- all in the context of Canadian law. |
Libel and Defamation in the Information Age - http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/defamation-in-cyberspace.html
Eric Eden's article concludes with "The reality is that libel and defamation laws are enforceable in the virtual world just like they are in the real world". |