[WikiEN-l] Re: legal liability issues

[Ray Saintonge]

Jimmy Wales wrote:

>Fred Bauder wrote:
>
>>However common sense plays a role here. Consider the situation of anyone
>>contemplating a lawsuit against you...
>>
>>From our perspective, NPOV is a great mechanism for avoiding libel,
>because it's pretty hard to libel someone without taking any position.
>
>As far as the liability we might have for words posted by a random
>contributor, the DMCA gives a pretty strong defense to that.
>
The argument is always available that the person who claims to be 
libeled has as much right to change the offending material as anybody else.

Ec.