I just logged in to do some stuff on a blog I rarely do anything to. There are 28 posts that have been written (not by me) lol. The only user is me, admin. All of them are "pending review" and have links to, what I assume, was their sites. I changed my password and visited one of them just out of curiousity. It was shut down by Wordpress for violations. Now, my question is... am I liable for anything if I edit the links out and such and post these articles? Hey, they put em there to be published! Thoughts?
You can be held liable if the person submitted content they didn't own. I doubt a spammer is going to create original content for every site they spammed.
I saw a movie with Cuba Gooding Jr in it where he was a writer & some old guy left a book about a murder story with him then died. Cuba published the book as his own & it turned out to be a true story & Cuba ended up going through hell trying to prove that he actually didn't write the story. I wish I could remember the name of the movie.