Wikipedia Cleared in French Defamation Case - New York Times. A French judge has dismissed a defamation
and privacy case against Wikipedia after ruling the free online
encyclopedia was not responsible for information introduced
onto its Web site. "Web site hosts cannot be liable under civil law because of
information stored on them if they do not in fact know of their
illicit nature," Binoche said in his written ruling released at
the Paris civil law court earlier this week.
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