EFF reports - safe harbor clause in CDA good news for blogs

Te California Supreme Court ruled last week that no provider or user of an interactive computer service may be held liable for putting material on the Internet that was written by someone else.

Good news for DJ users and the web in general. Essentially, this ruling means that someone passing on information online from an other source is shielded from charges of libel, just like the computer service operator who hosts the message is. The original speaker (or writer, in this case) is the only one still subject to prosecution for their own words. As we all know, the re-poster may still be liable for copyright infringement, but that's an other story.