FC: France says Yahoo Nazi-gear auction "offended collective memory"

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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> 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

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> 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

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> 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.

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