6-701. DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS UTTERED ON RADIO AND TELEVISION BROADCASTS IN BEHALF OF CANDIDATES — LIABILITY. The owner, licensee, or operator of a visual or sound radio broadcasting station, or network of stations, or agents or employees of any such owner, licensee, or operator shall not be liable for any damages for any defamatory statement published […]
6-702. UNIFORM SINGLE PUBLICATION ACT — ONE CAUSE OF ACTION FOR LIBEL OR SLANDER — RECOVERY. No person shall have more than one (1) cause of action for damages for libel or slander or invasion of privacy or any other tort founded upon any single publication or exhibition or utterance, such as any one (1) […]
6-703. JUDGMENT A BAR TO SECOND ACTION. A judgment in any jurisdiction for or against the plaintiff upon the substantive merits of any action for damages founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance as described in section 6-702, Idaho Code, shall bar any other action for damages by the same plaintiff against the […]
6-704. INTERPRETATION OF ACT. This act shall be so interpreted as to effectuate its purpose to make uniform the law of those states or jurisdictions which enact it. History: [6-704, added 1953, ch. 109, sec. 3, p. 143.]
6-705. TITLE OF ACT. This act may be cited as the Uniform Single Publication Act. History: [6-705, added 1953, ch. 109, sec. 4, p. 143.]
6-706. RADIO OR TELEVISION BROADCASTING STATION OR NETWORK OF STATIONS — PROOF OF MALICE. No person, firm, or corporation owning or operating a radio or television broadcasting station or network of stations shall be liable under the laws of libel, slander or defamation on account of having made its broadcasting facilities or network available to […]
6-707. RIGHT OF STATION TO REQUIRE SUBMISSION OF MATTER INTENDED TO BE BROADCAST. Any person, firm, or corporation owning or operating a radio or television broadcasting station shall have the right, but shall not be compelled, to require the submission and permanent filing, in such station, of a copy of the complete address, script or […]
6-708. LIMITATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS UPON IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY — FAILURE TO EXERCISE DUE CARE. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to relieve any person broadcasting over a radio or television station from liability under the law of libel, slander or defamation. Nor shall anything in this act be construed to relieve any person, […]
6-709. LIABILITY IN CASE OF JOINT OPERATION. In any case where liability shall exist on account of any broadcast where two (2) or more radio or television stations were connected together simultaneously or by transcription, film, or other approved or adapted use for joint operation, in the making of such broadcast, such liability shall be […]
6-710. PRIVILEGED BROADCASTS. A privileged broadcast which shall not be considered as libelous, slanderous, or defamatory is one made: (1) In the proper discharge of an official duty. (2) In any broadcast of or any statement made in any legislative or judicial proceeding. (3) By fair and true report, without malice of a judicial, legislative, […]
6-711. MALICE NOT INFERRED FROM BROADCAST. In the cases provided for in subdivision (3) of the preceding section, malice is not to be inferred from the mere fact of communication or broadcast. History: [6-711, added 1963, ch. 158, sec. 6, p. 459.]
6-712. RETRACTION BY NEWSPAPER, RADIO OR TELEVISION BROADCASTING STATION OR NETWORK OF STATIONS — LIMIT OF RECOVERY. In any action for damages for the publication of a libel, in a newspaper, or of a slander or libel by radio or television broadcast, plaintiff shall recover no more than actual damages unless a correction be demanded […]
6-713. PRIVILEGED PUBLICATION IN NEWSPAPER DEFINED. A privileged publication in a newspaper which shall not be considered as libelous is one made: (1) In the proper discharge of an official duty. (2) In any publication of or any statement made in any legislative or judicial proceeding. (3) In a communication, without malice, to a person […]
6-714. MALICE NOT INFERRED FROM PUBLICATION. In the cases provided for in subdivisions (3) and (4) of the preceding section, malice is not inferred from the communication or publication. History: [6-714, added 1963, ch. 158, sec. 9, p. 459.]
