Apr 02, 2025 01:31 PM IST
The Delhi excessive court docket has additionally restrained Wikipedia from additional publishing defamatory content material on ANI’s Wiki web page The Delhi excessive court docket. (File Photograph)
A bench of justice Subramonium Prasad additionally directed Wikipedia to take away the ‘protection status’ imposed on ANI’s Wikipedia web page and restrained the platform’s admins from additional publishing defamatory content material on ANI’s web page.
The ‘protection status’ permits solely admins to edit a Wiki web page.
The order got here in a defamation swimsuit filed by ANI, which had snowballed into a bigger judicial tussle over the legal responsibility and duties of intermediaries — on-line service providers– when the content material posted by their customers is caught in a authorized tangle.
The lawyer representing Wikipedia stated his consumer has not claimed the content material was factually appropriate and verified, and acknowledged its content material got here with a disclaimer that the knowledge was primarily based on secondary sources. The platform stated its content material was added by way of open, editable collaboration.
Nonetheless, in November, the excessive court docket pulled up the platform for its obvious reluctance in sharing particulars of customers who made edits to a web page, observing that Wikipedia’s disclaimer that its content material was primarily based on secondary sources couldn’t absolve it from accountability for what customers write on its pages.
The disclaimer can’t act as a “Kavach of Karna”, stated Justice Prasad, referring to the legendary defend within the epic Mahabharata. The choose added that it was “troubling” that the platform represented itself as an encyclopedia whereas claiming to not endorse what was written on it.
“Prayer 2 and 3 (granted),” the bench stated whereas saying the decision.
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