Great news, Dimi! Thank you for sharing.

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Hungarian Constitutional Court holds content providers responsible for unmoderated comments (Tisza Gergő)
2. Commissioner on copyright reform and FoP (Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov)
3. Re: Commissioner on copyright reform and FoP (Stevie Benton)
4. Re: Commissioner on copyright reform and FoP (Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov)

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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 22:32:57 -0700 From: Tisza Gergő gtisza@gmail.com To: Advocacy Advisory Group for Wikimedia advocacy_advisors@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Advocacy Advisors] Hungarian Constitutional Court holds content providers responsible for unmoderated comments Message-ID: CACiqbVwkfU1h2sZ2BNFG8UcdQrvR4sCPeYhGZVp78dXrM5xPTw@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov < dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com> wrote:

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Thanks, Tisza, for the update! So I guess this cements it then? Any chance anybody can change the rule in Hungary from now on?

IANAL, but as I understand it the lower-level courts based their decision on certain laws, and the Constitutional Court was asked to say whether that is unconstitutional due to freedom of speech, and they said it was not; they did not say the responsibility of content providers follows directly from the constitution. So if the laws in question (2001/CVIII e-commerce act + civil code) are changed, that could affect the situation. (And of course the constitution could be changed - the current ruling party has supermajority and does that quite frequently.)

Given that the current government has so far always changed laws towards less freedom of speech, not more, I wouldn't hold my breath, though.