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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."

2 of 64 comments (clear)

  1. Frosty Palm post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Blazer sucks my fruity fat ass.

  2. Canada has courts? by kingsqueak · · Score: -1, Troll

    By the time you staff the place, hire housekeeping and then the judicial staff, the rulings apply to what, the remaining 2000 people of Canada? I think they all sell t-shirts at Niagra Falls anyway.