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Yahoo! Not Bound by French Court Ruling

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-world-is-not-insane dept.

Klerck writes "Luckily, a US federal judge has ruled that Yahoo! is not bound by the French ruling that demanded that all Nazi memorabilia be removed from its auction site. It's a nice surprise to have a sensible ruling come out of a federal court in times like these."

3 of 423 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Where was the EFF foundation? by truesaer · · Score: 4, Informative
    EFF didn't get involved in the Yahoo case because Yahoo has about 5 million lawyers who can handle it just fine. They're busy defending Prof. Felten, who doesn't have billions of dollars and a gigantic company to throw his weight around with.


    Nothing to see here, move along....

  2. Re:Europes (France) point of view : by Fnkmaster · · Score: 4, Informative
    Are you just talking out of your ass? The whole point is that Yahoo complied LONG LONG ago with any French site they have (presumably www.yahoo.fr or something along those lines). The whole point is that the moronic French judiciary wants to apply French law to www.yahoo.com and other Yahoo owned sites that are located ANYWHERE as long as they are accessible by French citizens. As mentioned elsewhere, that is not a reasonable definition of legality, and if every site had to comply with the laws of every country just because it was accessible from said countries, there would be nothing left of the web, or it would be entirely segmented by geographical location to prevent violating laws somewhere.


    So basically, the French can blow it out there asses or try to sue Yahoo interests in France, but that will likely lead to Yahoo AND every other significant internet entity ceasing to do business in France, and I think that would be fine. It would teach the whiny French a lesson about the real world.

  3. Re:I'd like to focus on a point. by Dredd13 · · Score: 4, Informative
    No, actually, the French Court didn't even go after Yahoo France, the french subsidiary, because everything under the control of Yahoo France was in compliance with .FR laws, and always had been. Nazi memorabilia had never BEEN available on the French site.

    They did, in fact, file suit against Yahoo!,Inc., a Delaware Corporation based in (then) Santa Clara, CA (now Sunnyvale), charging that because the US Auctions site "reached" France, it was bound by French law.

    Know of what you speak before you speak it.