{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:1647","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Defamation","number":"1647","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1647/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK V - OBLIGATIONS","title":"TITLE II - NON-CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS","chapter":"Chapter 1. - Extra-Contractual Liability","section":"Section 3. - Liability for the Actions of Others","paragraph":"Paragraph 3. - Liability of Employers and Bodies Corporate"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"The managing editor of the newspaper, the printer of the pamphlet or the publisher of the book is answerable under the civil law for defamation committed by the author of a text printed therein.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1647/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":464,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/464/?article=1647&paragraph=lead#article-1647-lead"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}