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| December 16, 2002 | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Mark Jurkowitz

Dec. 16--A number of concerned First Amendment advocates say a landmark libel decision by the Australian High Court may have the effect of erecting a fence on the borderless information frontier opened up by Internet technology.

The Dec. 10 ruling concluded that an Australian businessman, Joseph Gutnick, could sue Dow Jones for defamation in Australia based on a Barron's magazine story that emanated from the company's computer servers in New Jersey. Although, as attorney Harvey Silverglate explains, defamation cases have traditionally been brought "in the jurisdiction where the speech is uttered or published or where you targeted it,"…

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