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PROPOSED FINAL DRAFT 3, QUESTIONS SUGGESTED FOR DISC. [i] (May 6-8, 1937)

handle is hein.ali/relwtrts0262 and id is 1 raw text is: The American Law Institute RESTATEMENT OF TORTS Proposed Final Draft No. 3 Questions Suggested for Discussion at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting May 6-8, 1937 Discussion is not confined to the questions pre- sented here. You are earnestly requested to raise any further points which occur to you. 1. §1020. As submitted to the Meetig of the Insti- tute in 1935, Comment g', page 110, T. D. No. 12, made a broadcasting company a publisher of defamatory mat- ter broadcast by any person who used its facilities and thereby imposed upon the company the same liability which has traditionally been imposed upon the publish- ers of newspapers. Like such publishers, the broad- casting company was made answerable for any defama- tory matter interpolated by a broadcaster, even though the company had taken every precaution to prevent the interpolation of defamatory matter and to discontinue the broadcast on notice of such interpolation. The In- stitute at its 1935 Meeting, by a vote of 17 to 14, or- dered that this matter be dealt with in a Caveat, thus leaving open the question whether the liability of the broadcasting station should be that of a publisher of a newspaper, or, on the other hand, that of one who, like the proprietor of a circulating library, disseminates libelous matter published by a third person, in which case the broadcasting company could escape liability