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Update: Canadian Online Defamation & Hyperlink Case

By Richard P.W. Stobbe

The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) is currently considering its verdict in the long-running case of Crookes v Newton The BC Court of Appeal?s 2009 decision (in Crookes v. Newton 2009 BCCA 392) held that Mr. Newton was not liable for hyperlinks to defamatory content. In short, if a person merely hyperlinks to a defamatory site, that act alone does [...]

Full post as published by Intellectual Property in Canada (ipblog.ca) on December 16, 2010 (boomark / email).