IP: Italian court says it has authority to close foreign web sites

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:41:27 -0500
> From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
>
> http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=151018
>
> Italy: Foreign 'Net sites can be closed
> Wednesday, 10 January 2001 13:17 (ET)
>
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>  ROME, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- A landmark case of defamation over the Internet led
> to an Italian court Wednesday to rule that foreign-based Internet sites that
> contravene Italian law can be shut down, the ANSA news agency reported.
>
>  It was not immediately clear, however, how such an order could be
> implemented or enforced.
>
>  The ruling came in an appeal in the Court of Cassation by a Jewish man --
> identified only as Moshe D. -- who said he had been defamed by a number of
> Web sites that claimed he had kidnapped his two daughters, was holding them
> in the city of Genoa and was raising them in defiance of Jewish law.
>
> [...]
>
>  Both the preliminary hearings judge and a higher tribunal had said the
> case went beyond their jurisdiction since the allegedly defamatory material
> originated outside Italy. However, the Court of Cassation Wednesday ruled
> Italy has jurisdiction since end-users connect to the sites from Italian
> territory.
>
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