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Canadian Court Reverses Net Publication Ruling

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bad-precedent-dismissal dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Canadian appellate court has reversed an earlier ruling that had media companies worldwide fearing an Internet publication chill. A lower court had asserted jurisdiction over the Washington Post based solely on an article published years earlier that was available on the Post's website. That decision attracted the attention of companies such as Reuters and Yahoo!, who appealed what was viewed as a dangerous Internet jurisdiction case."

5 of 64 comments (clear)

  1. frist post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    rofl

  2. Frist Psot! by Belzu · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think?

  3. How to avoid RIAA entirely. by Maxhrk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    maybe i should go to africa where tribes are.. then i set up computers and all there.. to see if US RIAA can sue me for sharing the musics over on internet Justresiction... mmm maybe it time for me to move to africa! whoo!

    *I am kidding actually.. i dont sharing at all.. really! And i am not moving, no way jose.*

  4. What's the best country by putko · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    On the same topic, what's the best country for hosting stuff that pisses off Western companies?

    E.g. suppose I have a news site that deeplinks to the NYTimes. I suspect if I host in the USA or Canada, they can get at me and perhaps shut me down with summary judgement.

    But what's a country where that would be cool, and they'd tell the USA and Canada to go jump in a lake?

    I know France is bad -- Google got in trouble for their searches (e.g. Company Z, a competitor of "Company A" could buy the search term "Company A", and serve ads for "Company Z"). The French say that is against their trademark laws. Germany and other countries also have "hate speech" laws that get in the way of freedom of expression.

    Thanks in advance!

    --
    http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_law/when_to_s tone_your_children/dt21_18a.html
  5. THIS fP FOR GNAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    world. GNAA member5 bureaucratic and