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Lawsuit Idea: Defamatory Search Results

Monday, November 12, 2012 23:43

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This Australian guy won over $200,000 suing Google for delivering results associating him with the mob. The judge explained the jury verdict by saying Google search results are just like publishing a newspaper:

Google Inc. is like the newsagent that sells a newspaper containing a defamatory article. While there might be no specific intention to publish defamatory material, there is a relevant intention by the newsagent to publish the newspaper for the purposes of the law of defamation.

Read Australian wins $208k from Google for defamation on Phys.org (via The Verge).