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Good morning all (at least here in metro Atlanta),
I am looking for some boilerplate wording for a
legal disclaimer to place on an organization's home page.
As with many other organizations, this one
includes links to a wide variety of outside web
sites and web pages that include useful
information related to the subject matter at
hand. But those "other" web pages and web sites
are obviously NOT under the control of the
organization I need to help with the disclaimer.
(A guy whose page is linked to my organization's
home page has a running feud with another guy
about the subject matter and temporarily placed a
rather libelous statement on his own web page. In
particular, he said "[So-and-so] is a f-----g
idiot!" The statement was taken down after a day
or so, but the "offended party" now threatens to
sue all ? including those who have hyperlinks to
this guy's web page. My own attorney tells me his
case against anybody other than the primary
offender is weak at best, because every judge in
the land knows there is no way to daily police
every web page link to every other web page link.
And yes, the "primary offender" has been put on
notice that his link is to be dropped if this occurs again.)
I already know what the disclaimer should state,
but really would like to see samples of how other
organizations have word their own versions.
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