Canadian Court libel decision favors news sites

The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear the appeal of a man who claimed he was damaged by articles published on The Washington Post's website because they were readable in Canada, The Globe & Mail reports.

Former United Nations official Cheickh Bangoura sued the newspaper in the Ontario courts, claiming that he was libelled in articles in The Post in 1997 that accused him of sexual harassment and financial improprieties.

Bangoura cleared his name, but the stories stayed in The Post's electronic archives and were available to readers in Ontario, where he has lived since 2000.

In 2004, an Ontario Superior Court judge ruled that his suit could go ahead because organizations that publish on the Internet know of the global reach of their content and must consider the legal consequences in places where the subjects of their articles live.

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