Dean C
Member
If the forum is not open to public view but only to registered members as in a Club - does this make a difference?
Essentially my members are only communicating with each other, not publishing to public view.
Nor is there any open registration. Anyone wanting to join is either invited by me or contacts me to ask.
You still host the content. The probability of some illegal or defaming content coming into the public domain is therefore lower, but some courts will (wrongly) still deem you responsible for the content. Hopefully the, German courts inparticular, will see sense in the coming years.