(1) Editors of a newspaper are responsible under professional, criminal
and civil law, for its intellectual content so far as they themselves
wrote or selected it. The responsibility under criminal or civil law of
other persons is not thereby excluded.
(2) The chief editor is responsible for the over-all editorial policy
of the newspaper.
(3) The editor-in-chief is required:
(_a_) to take care that only such contributions are accepted as have
been written or selected for acceptance by an editor.
(_b_) to take care that the first and last names as well as the
residence of the editor-in-chief and his deputies, as well as that of
each editor to whom a specific part of the direction of a newspaper is
delegated, is reported.
(_c_) upon request to give information to anyone establishing a legal
interest therein, as to which editor bears the responsibility for
a contribution, so far as this is not evident from the data under
subdivision b.