On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:26:21 +1100, Trevor Wilson wrote:
> "Phil Allison" wrote in message
> news:5uvrkpF1jhh2nU1@mid.individual.net...
>>
>> "Trevor Wilson"
>>>
>>> Ms Wood,
>>>
>>> I appreciate that you need to take defamation seriously. Dymocks did not
>>> write the material. Dymocks, by selling the book in question, would not
>>> be
>>> defaming anyone.
>>
>>
>> ** This is where you are 100%, dead wrong.
>>
>> Defamation occurs when the defamatory material is disseminated to others -
>> ie " published ".
>>
>> The central issue in defamation is the actual * harm done * to a person
>> or organisation, not the mere writing of defamatory material. The harm is
>> done by the publication.
>
> **Yep and Dymocks is not the publisher.
It would be for the purposes of defamation law.
I suggest you google the elements required to establish an action for
defamation (in particular the element of "publication").
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