According to the Gaurdian "A 156-year-old pillar of libel law prompted by an eccentric German duke which has allowed wealthy foreigners to sue in English courts could be declared obsolete, in a move that would have profound implications for the future of the internet. At present each individual publication of a libel gives rise to a separate cause of action - the so-called multiple publication rule."

This could the lead way to a more US approach to libel law, where they use a single publication rule. This means that there is only one act of publication in which the article first appears and only one cause of global action.

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