Sentence examples for liable users from inspiring English sources
Herrema calls these consumers "individually liable users".
In the US, intermediaries are not held directly liable for users' postings and communications.
That could make ISPs, who provide internet access, liable for users' illicit file-sharing.
The House bill would also emulate China's system of corporate "self-discipline," making companies liable for users' actions.
That means that Yelp cannot be held liable for users leaving negative reviews of your business and eBay cannot be held liable if you bid on an autographed baseball that ends up being counterfeit: the platforms are held to be neutral intermediaries and their tantalizingly deep pockets are out of reach.
This time it was the turn of Spanish broadcaster Telecinco, insisting that YouTube should be liable when users upload copyright-infringing material.
In the headlines this afternoon, the entertainment industry suffered a setback in a U.S. appeals court, which ruled that two top makers of online file-sharing programs are not liable when users swap copyrighted music and movies.
Governments should not rely on private entities like service providers to censor content and should not hold them liable for user content.
Last spring, Quiznos and iFilm tried to claim they should not be liable for user-generated content because of the Communications Decency Act, which immunizes "providers" of "interactive computer services" from responsibility for user postings on their sites.
The dispute over an ad is fairly standard — companies often sue one another over advertising claims — but the video contest raises a novel legal question: Quiznos did not make the insulting submissions, so should it be held liable for user-generated content created at its behest?
But the provision was soon overruled by lawmakers as being too vague and unworkable, leaving behind a set of laws today that prevent site owners from being held liable for user generated illegality and give them the legal right to be offensive to all and sundry.
