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Does libel magically turn into slander if a blind person uses a screen reader? Asking for a friend. ;-)

• gota 6y ago
  Your comment made me curious and I checked - it is not the physical channel that matters, it is whether the media is _transient_ or not. It seems that paying to skywrite (you know, small plane making artificial clouds) could be slander but not libel
  • dctoedt 6y ago
    > whether the media is _transient_ or not Citation? By that light, a DVD containing defamatory speech would be libelous, but that's generally not how courts see it. From the (highly-influential) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, summarizing New York law (which is quite typical): "Defamation, consisting of the twin torts of libel and slander, is the invasion of the interest in a reputation and good name. Generally, spoken defamatory words are slander; written defamatory words are libel. Libel is a method of defamation expressed in writing or print." [0] https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6017275629956611274 https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=601727562995661...
    • mijoharas 6y ago
      There is also "calumny", which is the action of slandering someone (and I assume also making writing libellous statements. After writing that parenthetical, I just googled, and libel is also a verb. So I guess I can say libelling someone)
• emayljames 6y ago
  What about the other way, subtitles.