Can posting a link to someone else’s website constitute defamation?
The Supreme Court will examine the case of a former Green Party campaign manager who says it does. The top court granted Wayne Crooks leave to appeal today, after a B.C. judge ruled against him in 2008. Crooks argued that when a Canadian website posted links to two U.S. websites that featured defamatory statements, it was the same as publishing defamatory material itself. The B.C. judge had dismissed the lawsuit saying the links were like a footnote or a reference to a website in a newsletter. Crookes had launched several court actions against members of the Green Party of Canada, Google, Myspace.com and Wikipedia for libel.
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