Press release full of legalese here.Court of Justice of the European Union wrote:The owner of an online social network cannot be obliged to install a general filtering
system, covering all its users, in order to prevent the unlawful use of musical and
audio-visual work
Such an obligation would not be respecting the prohibition to impose on that provider a general
obligation to monitor nor the requirement that a fair balance be struck between the protection of
copyright, on the one hand, and the freedom to conduct business, the right to protection of
personal data and the freedom to receive or impart information, on the other.
SABAM vs Netlog, a win for online rights
SABAM vs Netlog, a win for online rights
EU does have a clue about these things after all.
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Re: SABAM vs Netlog, a win for online rights
Well at least us Aussies don't have this crap...
Website admins shouldn't be responsible for every little thing and message people send on their service. They only provide the service, how the client/customer/end-user uses them is up to themselves.
...damnit.
Website admins shouldn't be responsible for every little thing and message people send on their service. They only provide the service, how the client/customer/end-user uses them is up to themselves.