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February 2018 WILMap Updates

February 22, 2018

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Yahoo Inc. v. LICRA

US court ruling on enforceability of French judgment
This case is the US follow-on litigation to a French court’s order , in 2000, for US search engine and portal Yahoo to restrict access to Nazi memorabilia auctions and

Yildirim v. Turkey

Yildirim was an academic who hosted his work on Google’s Sites platform. Another unidentified person hosted anti-Ataturk content on Google Sites. The Turkish criminal court ordered the anti-Ataturk content blocked,

Cengiz and Others v. Turkey

A Turkish criminal court ordered that national ISPs block access to YouTube, because of videos critical of Ataturk. Applicants, all university academics and regular YouTube users, claimed that the block

Pinckney v Mediatech

This case considered the relative jurisdiction of EU Member States under the Brussels I convention in a copyright case involving online CD sales. It concluded that mere site accessibility, rather

Dow Jones v. Gutnick

The Wall Street Journal / Barron’s online published allegations of criminal activity by Gutnick, and Australian citizen and resident. The article was accessible to paying online subscribers, some of whom

SPEECH Act

Securing the Protection of Our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act, 28 U.S. Code § 4101
This statute was unanimously passed by the US Congress in 2010 in response to libel tourism concerns, and in particular in response to UK lawsuits against an American author whose