The UK's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is consulting on extending protections against libel suits currently afforded to ISPs, hosting firms and other information portals to websites which carry links to defamatory material.
Under the current rules, ISPs and other such firms are protected from lawsuits as long as they are unaware that the content they are hosting is illegal, although they are obliged to take the offending material down when the matter is brought to their attention.
However, new legislation that is under consultation (until September) would extend the protections to all sites linking to allegedly defamatory or illegal content, including search engines and content aggregating sites.
The move has been welcomed by many in the industry as representing a "common sense" approach. However, it is likely to face objections from the music industry, which fears that the protection could be extended to websites linking to illegal peer to peer downloading services.
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