The last thing we all need
Sun, 1 Mar 2009, 06:35 pmGrant Malcolm13 posts in thread
The last thing we all need
Sun, 1 Mar 2009, 06:35 pmWith apologies in advance because the last thing we need is more discussion on this topic but I think the following article should be required reading for the few members that raise this topic on a regular basis:
Tracy Frazier's article, You Read What About Me on the Internet?!: Anonymous Online Libel, THE LEGALITY, Feb. 26, 2009, http://www.thelegality.com/archives/125
Everyone else, 27 new audition and production notices added to the site this week, ten blog posts, four reviews and lots more interesting theatre related things than this post!
Regards
Grant
malice
Mon, 2 Mar 2009, 10:26 pm"noun 1. desire to inflict injury or suffering on another.
2. Law evil intent on the part of someone who commits a wrongful act injurious to others, technically called malitia praecogitata, or malice prepense or malice aforethought. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin malitia badness, spite, malice]" - Macquarie Dictionary.
This is a bit different to defamation, which others have fully defined earlier and which is actionable at law. Malice, or spite per se, is not.
Unfortunately, if we stick our heads up, we are vulnerable to random loppers.The only recourse we really have is to pull our heads in.
I also endorse GM's earlier observation, that actual defamation on this site would be extremely difficult to establish anyway. My advice to frequent posters therefore is not to call for more draconian sanctions, but to don some metaphoric body armour, grin :) and bear it :teacher: !
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