FC: French judge still wants to ban Yahoo from selling WWII items

[Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>]

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38183,00.html

    How to Halt Nazi Sales in France?
    Reuters

    8:35 a.m. Aug. 11, 2000 PDT
    PARIS -- A Paris judge ordered independent experts to investigate how
    to bar French Web surfers from tapping into online sales of Nazi
    memorabilia on websites accessed using the giant Internet portal
    Yahoo.

    Judge Jean-Jacques Gomez said on Friday that over the next two months
    one French and two foreign experts should look into ways of
    implementing his three-month-old emergency ruling ordering Yahoo to
    block the U.S.-based sites which are barred under French law.

    The judge rejected one of Yahoo's main contentions, which was that the
    English-language Yahoo.com site was outside the competence of the
    French court.

    He set a new hearing for November 6.

    It was the second time he had sought expert advice in the case brought
    against Yahoo by the Paris-based International League against Racism
    and Anti-Semitism (LICRA), the Union of French Jewish Students (UEJF)
    and the Movement against Racism (MRAP).

    Yahoo has argued that it is technically impossible to block French
    Internet users from websites governed by less restrictive American
    laws and that advertise hundreds of Nazi items such as daggers and
    uniforms.

    Yahoo lawyer Christophe Pecnard welcomed the decision to appoint
    international experts. "We will cooperate with the experts in order to
    see if any solution is possible," he told reporters.

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