Dear all,
yesterdays decision by the ECHR on the liability of an internet news portal for offensive online comments makes me wonder about its implications for wikipedia:
"Commercially-run Internet news portal was liable for the offensive online comments of its readers"
http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng-press/Pages/search.aspx#%7B%22sort%22:%5...
Since this potentially affects all 47 member states of the council of europe, it could have far-reaching effects.
Does anyone have further insights or opinions?
Nikolas
I feel like Siim is the person to ask about this. I am putting him in cc in case he's not on the list.
2015-06-17 15:13 GMT+02:00 Nikolas Becker nikolas.becker@wikimedia.de:
Dear all,
yesterdays decision by the ECHR on the liability of an internet news portal for offensive online comments makes me wonder about its implications for wikipedia:
"Commercially-run Internet news portal was liable for the offensive online comments of its readers"
http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng-press/Pages/search.aspx#%7B%22sort%22:%5... http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng-press/Pages/search.aspx#%7B%22sort%22:[%22kpdate%20Descending%22],%22languageisocode%22:[%22ENG%22],%22itemid%22:[%22003-5110487-6300958%22]%7D
Since this potentially affects all 47 member states of the council of europe, it could have far-reaching effects.
Does anyone have further insights or opinions?
Nikolas
-- Nikolas Becker Mitglied des Präsidiums / Member of the Board
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There is a balanced German language analysis here:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Gerichtshof-Verlagsportal-fuer-Nutzer...
Main points:
- it is not directly applicable to all member states - social networks and non profit message boards are not affected
From this reading I would count Wikipedia exempt, as they specifically state that Delfi invites users to contribute content TO MAKE A PROFIT OR FOSTER THEIR BUSINESS MODEL
"Dabei hebt das Gericht hervor, dass sich die Entscheidung nur auf die Pflichten eines professionell geführten Internet-News-Portals bezieht, welches seine Leser auffordert, Kommentare zu den veröffentlichten Beiträgen abzugeben und hiervon auch wirtschaftlich profitiert. Ausdrücklich weisen die Richter weiter darauf hin, dass die Entscheidung nicht Diskussionsforen oder Bulletin Boards umfasst, wo Nutzer untereinander Meinungen austauschen können und die von Privatpersonen betrieben werden. Gleiches gilt für Social-Media-Plattformen wie Facebook. "
Best Hauke
Am 17.06.2015 15:16 schrieb Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov:
I feel like Siim is the person to ask about this. I am putting him in cc in case he's not on the list.
2015-06-17 15:13 GMT+02:00 Nikolas Becker nikolas.becker@wikimedia.de:
Dear all,
yesterdays decision by the ECHR on the liability of an internet news portal for offensive online comments makes me wonder about its implications for wikipedia:
"Commercially-run Internet news portal was liable for the offensive online comments of its readers"
http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng-press/Pages/search.aspx#%7B%22sort%22:%5...
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Since this potentially affects all 47 member states of the council of europe, it could have far-reaching effects.
Does anyone have further insights or opinions?
Nikolas
--
Nikolas Becker
Mitglied des Präsidiums / Member of the Board
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin
Advocacy_Advisors mailing list Advocacy_Advisors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors [2]
Links:
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