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*********** From cyberia. Also see: http://www.foxnews.com/vtech/052300/yahoo.sml http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-1923362.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni *********** >Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 21:58:53 +0100 >From: DAVID FLINT <DF@MACROBERTS.CO.UK> >Subject: French decision on liability for content > >The tribunal de grande instance de Nanterre today (Wednesday 24th May) >issued a judgment against Yahoo prohibiting them from offering item of Nazi >memorabilia for sale. > >the court gave Yahoo 2 months to propose steps which would make the site >inaccessible to frech surfers. > >Details at: > >http://fr.news.yahoo.com/000524/32/er6c.html > >http://fr.news.yahoo.com/000524/32/eqwk.html > >http://fr.news.yahoo.com/000524/32/eqki.html > >Regards > >David Flint >MacRoberts Solicitors >Glasgow Scotland >(Tel: +44 141 332 9988; Fax: +44 141 332 8886) >URL: http://www.macroberts.co.uk >PGP Public Key at: >http://keys.pgp.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8B1C45D5 ********** >Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 02:26:42 +0400 >From: Peter Borisenko <pedrodon@CHAT.RU> >Organization: home >Subject: Re: French decision on liability for content > >DAVID FLINT> The tribunal de grande instance de Nanterre today (Wednesday >24th May) >DAVID FLINT> issued a judgment against Yahoo prohibiting them from >offering item of Nazi >DAVID FLINT> memorabilia for sale. > >DAVID FLINT> the court gave Yahoo 2 months to propose steps which would >make the site >DAVID FLINT> inaccessible to frech surfers. > >DAVID FLINT> Details at: > >DAVID FLINT> http://fr.news.yahoo.com/000524/32/er6c.html > >DAVID FLINT> http://fr.news.yahoo.com/000524/32/eqwk.html > >DAVID FLINT> http://fr.news.yahoo.com/000524/32/eqki.html > >English texts can be found here: > >http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000523/wr/france_internet_1.html >http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000524/wr/internet_nazis_1.html >http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000524/wr/internet_nazis_2.html > > > >Best regards, >Peter ******** >Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:40:02 +0200 >From: FR <fr.levol@FREE.FR> >Subject: Re : French decision on liability for content > > >De : DAVID FLINT <DF@MACROBERTS.CO.UK> > > > The tribunal de grande instance de Nanterre today (Wednesday 24th May) > > issued a judgment against Yahoo prohibiting them from offering item of Nazi > > memorabilia for sale. > > > > the court gave Yahoo 2 months to propose steps which would make the site > > inaccessible to frech surfers. > > >This is a wrong information. In fact, this is a mix of 2 different >judgments. > >- Monday 22th may, the Tribunal de grande Instance de Paris issued a >preliminary injuction against Yahoo! : the judge asked Yahoo! to forbid the >access of the nazi auctions in Yahoo! Auctions. the exhibition of nazi stuff >is forbiden in France. > >The judge siad that as the Auctions site can be viewed by french citizen on >the net, Yahoo! has comitted an offence "on the french territory" and has >"offended the collective memory of the country". > >Yahoo! has 2 months to find technical solutions to comply with this >injunction. > >- Wednesday 24th May, the Tribunal de grande instance de Nanterre ruled that >Multimania (a compagny hosting sites = a kind of french Geocities) could not >be held liable for having hosted a nazi site. > >As soon as the site was discovered, Multimania shut it down and sued the >author of the site (which xas still unknown at that time). > >The plaintiff, UEJF, a jewish student association, said the site should >never have been hosted because the nazi content should have been detected by >Multimania. > >UEJF claimed that the hosting service is anonymous, making it harder for the >plaintiff to find the author of the site. But Multimania used the IP adress >used and asked the acess providerto give the identity of the e-nazi. ********** -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------