Free for a Fee

By Eric Goldman

Best Western International, Inc. v. Furber, 2008 WL 4182827 (D. Ariz. Sept. 5, 2008). The CMLP page.

In my Co-Blogging paper, I wrote about my uncertainty whether co-bloggers would be able to claim 47 USC 230 for the content/actions of their co-bloggers. This case hardly resolves the issue, but the court does grant 230 dismissals to co-website operators for all posts they did not author.

Three defendants claim 230. Furber is one of the website operators. There are three alleged facts at issue:

* Furber “created the website homepage to solicit content from others”
* he publicly posted emails he received from others
* he “created and posted a “Site Master Notice Post” stating that some posts were being moved to an alternative website”

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