2009/9/17 Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net:
Plan to update libel law for web: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8259814.stm
Does anyone know what this means?
"Publishers of online archives and blogs might also be given a defence of qualified privilege - that a piece is fair and accurate and published without malice - against an offending article after a year time limit has expired.
They would face action only if they refused to publish the correction on the offending web page."
If it is fair, accurate and malice-free, then it isn't libellous anyway, and doesn't need correcting.