[Foundation-l] [Announcement] French lawsuit against WMF won in court

Christophe Henner christophe.henner at gmail.com
Sun Nov 4 10:56:36 UTC 2007


They're speaking of the case of Dailymotion. They lost in July (the
17th iirc). It was slightly different, it wasn't about defamation but
author's right.

In the final statement, the judge as soon as an host is aware of an
illegal content on one of his website, he becomes responsible.

On 03/11/2007, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ray Saintonge wrote:
> > Michael Bimmler wrote:
> >> On 11/2/07, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> OT: What's the meaning of CA on the favicon?
> >>>
> >> Conseil d'administration [=board] maybe? Might be that the favicon has
> >> been taken from a WmFR-Board wiki or something. Just guessing...
> >>
> >>> http://www.lemonde.fr/web/depeches/0,14-0,39-33068926@7-50,0.html
> >>> Article in Le Monde (in french)
> >>>
> > I note the last paragraph of the article:
> >
> >     Si cette décision est encourageante pour les hébergeurs, elle ne
> >     constitue en rien une jurisprudence. D'autant que ces derniers mois,
> >     d'autres tribunaux ont rendu des décisions qui allaient en sens
> >     inverse en reconnaissant la responsabilité éditoriale des hébergeurs.
> >
> > How are these other cases distinguished from our case?
> >
> > Ec
>
> It would actually be helpful if they cited their sources. Problem is we
> have no idea which cases they refer to :-(
>
> ant
>
>
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