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kehres@ima.com (Tim Kehres) writes:

[...]
>Most sites (or at least those not part of .edu) are around for reasons other
>than to just support news, and their admins perform news administration as
>a peripheral activity.  To monitor every single image that goes through a
>site with a full alt feed is a *very* significant resource in time, one in
>which most companies will not be able to cost justify
[...]

The law seems to say that you are not reponsible for the distribution
of material that can't and don't know about. (Without such law the
First Amendment is almost worthless.)

- Carl

ANNOTATED REFERENCES

(All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)

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law/cubby-v-compuserv
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* Expression -- Liability -- Cubby v. Compuserv

Report of a federal district court case which said CompuServe could
not be held liable for the defamatory content because it exercised no
editorial control.

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law/student-publications.misc
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* Expression -- Offensive -- Student Publications -- Misc

Quotes from the book _Law of the Student Press_ by the Student Press
Law Center (1985,1988). They say that four-letter words are protected
speech, that public universities are not likely to be liable for
publications that they for which they do not control the contents, and
that the _Hazelwood_ decision does not apply to universities.

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If you have gopher, you can browse the CAF archive with the command
   gopher gopher.eff.org

These document(s) are also available by anonymous ftp (the preferred
method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp
to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s):

  pub/academic/law/cubby-v-compuserv
  pub/academic/law/student-publications.misc

To get the file(s) by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org.
Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file
name):

send acad-freedom/law cubby-v-compuserv
send acad-freedom/law student-publications.misc

-- 
Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign