http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Defamation-of-Character/Federal/index.html LawInfo - Legal Resource Center offers free legal forms and free legal documents that is designed to help consumers and businesses resolve their legal issues http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Defamation-of-Character/Federal/what-is-defamation-.html <p>Defamation is false and unprivileged spoken words or written publication, which exposes any living person to hatred, contempt, ridicule, or which causes him/her to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injure him/her in his/her trade or occupation.</p> <p>For example, if a person or the news media says or writes something about you that is understood to lower your reputation, or that keeps people from associating with you, defamation has occurred. However, if someone says something false about someone who has died, as reprehensible as that may be, in most states it is not considered defamatory. No legal action can be taken on behalf of a dead person. Only a living person can be defamed.</p> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:51:17 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Defamation-of-Character/Federal/may-someone-other-than-the-person-who-origina.html One who &quot;publishes&quot; a defamatory statement may be liable. However, 47 U.S.C. sec. 230 says that online service providers are not publishers of content posted by their users. Section 230 gives most ISPs and message board hosts the discretion to keep postings or delete them, whichever they prefer, in response to claims by others that a posting is defamatory or libelous. Most ISPs and message board hosts also post terms of service that give them the right to delete or not delete messages as they see fit and such terms have generally been held to be enforceable under law. Defamation of Character FAQs Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:24:47 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Defamation-of-Character/Federal/what-are-slander-and-libel-.html Slander and libel are two forms of defamation. Slander is a spoken defamation and libel is the written form. However, radio and television broadcasts that are defamatory are considered to be libel, rather than slander, even though the defamation is spoken rather than written. Defamation of Character FAQs Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:05:54 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Assautl-and-Battery/Federal/index.html Free Assault and Battery FAQs Personal Injury Sub-categories Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:36:13 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Benzene-Exposure/Federal/index.html Free Benzene Exposure FAQs Personal Injury Sub-categories Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:36:13 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Car-Accident/Federal/index.html Free Car Accident FAQs Personal Injury Sub-categories Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:36:13 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Dog-Bite/Federal/index.html Free Dog Bite FAQs Personal Injury Sub-categories Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:36:13 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Legal-Terms/Federal/index.html Free Legal Terms FAQs Personal Injury Sub-categories Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:36:13 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Medical-Negligence/Federal/index.html Free Medical Negligence FAQs Personal Injury Sub-categories Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:36:13 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Mold/Federal/index.html Free Mold FAQs Personal Injury Sub-categories Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:36:13 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Personal-Injury-Claims-and-Lawsuits/Federal/index.html Free Personal Injury Claims and Lawsuits FAQs Personal Injury Sub-categories Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:36:13 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Product-Liability/Federal/index.html Free Product Liability FAQs Personal Injury Sub-categories Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:36:13 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/SUV-Rollovers-FAQs/Federal/index.html Free SUV Rollovers FAQs Personal Injury Sub-categories Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:36:13 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Slip-and-Fall-Personal-Injury/Federal/index.html Free Slip and Fall FAQs Personal Injury Sub-categories Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:36:13 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Taser-Guns-FAQs/Federal/index.html Free Taser Guns FAQs Personal Injury Sub-categories Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:36:13 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Toxic-Torts/Federal/index.html Free Toxic Torts FAQs Personal Injury Sub-categories Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:36:13 GMT