The Delaware Court of Chancery has allowed a plaintiff in a defamation suit to argue that a hyperlink contained in a 2014 news story constituted a republishing of allegedly defamatory statements made in a Web article originally posted two years earlier.
Vice Chancellor Donald F. Parsons Jr. said a hyperlink alone is not enough to establish republication. Instead, the key factor is whether the hyperlink was intended to disseminate the information to “a new and different audience,” Parsons wrote in Perlman v. Vox Media.
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