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Good news today for bloggers like us here at Language Log Plaza: the California Supreme Court has struck another blow against common law liability for republication. You can't be sued for libel (they claim) simply for reporting on a blog what another source has said (see this report). Ilena Rosenthal had been sued for publishing, on a web site she did not control, certain statements taken from an email by Tim Bolen about a couple of medical doctors, Stephen Barrett and Terry Polevoy, who run a web site that attacks alternative medicine (Rosenthal is a defender of alternative medicine). Among other things, she alleged that Barrett is "arrogant, bizarre, closed-minded; emotionally disturbed, professionally incompetent, intellectually dishonest, a dishonest journalist, sleazy, unethical, a quack, a thug, a bully, a Nazi, a hired gun for vested interests, the leader of a subversive organization, and engaged in criminal activity (conspiracy, extortion, filing a false police report, and other unspecified acts)".

Δεν ξέρω αν νομικά μπορεί να αξιοποιηθεί στην υπόθεση Τσιπρόπουλου. Ανεξάρτητα από το πως αξιολογεί κανείς τα πραγματικά περιστατικά, και στις δύο περιπτώσεις, έχει μια αυτοτελή αξία ως προς επανακαθορισμό της "αναδημοσίευσης" στο ψηφιακό περιβάλλον.