Michael Geist on Internet execs and criminal liability [fs]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Subject: Internet Execs Facing Criminal Liability for Online Content
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:16:23 -0500
From: Michael Geist <mgeist () pobox com>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
References: <405958CE.3070707 () well com>

Declan,

Two stories from today's Internet Law News
(http://ecommercecenter.bna.com) that may interest -- the Yahoo!
France case is back, while a  Japanese executive faces criminal
liability for carrying controversial advertising.

FRENCH COURT RULES IT CAN HEAR YAHOO! CRIMINAL CASE
A Paris Court of Appeal has ruled that it is competent to
hear a case involving criminal charges against former Yahoo!
CEO Timothy Koogle over the availability of Nazi content on
the Yahoo! site. Koogle was acquitted by a trial court last
year. The appellate court ruled that it was entitled to
assert jurisdiction over the matter.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040317/323/eotuk.html
<http://www.juriscom.net/actu/visu.php?ID=477>

JAPANESE AD EXEC ARRESTED FOR RUNNING BROTHEL SITE ADS
A Japanese Internet advertising executive has been arrested
after his company ran ads on its homepage for a Tokyo
brothel. The executive and a fellow employee were charged
with breaking the Anti-Prostitution Law.
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040318p2a00m0dm005000c.html

MG
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Professor Michael A. Geist
Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law
University of Ottawa Law School, Common Law Section
Technology Counsel, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
57 Louis Pasteur St., P.O. Box 450, Stn. A, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5
Tel: 613-562-5800, x3319     Fax: 613-562-5124
mgeist () pobox com              http://www.michaelgeist.ca





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