Will web links be a liability?

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The Department of Trade and Industry is inviting firms' views on how the European Electronic Commerce Directive should be implemented.

In particular, the DTI is asking how much legal liability should attach to firms and ISPs hosting links or URLs that point to incorrect information or defamatory comments. Some firms, and parti...

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