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------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 11:40:51 -0400 To: politech@politechbot.com From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: FC: French judge still wants to ban Yahoo from selling WWII items Send reply to: declan@well.com
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38183,00.html
How to Halt Nazi Sales in France? Reuters
8:35 a.m. Aug. 11, 2000 PDT PARIS -- A Paris judge ordered independent experts to investigate how to bar French Web surfers from tapping into online sales of Nazi memorabilia on websites accessed using the giant Internet portal Yahoo.
Judge Jean-Jacques Gomez said on Friday that over the next two months one French and two foreign experts should look into ways of implementing his three-month-old emergency ruling ordering Yahoo to block the U.S.-based sites which are barred under French law.
The judge rejected one of Yahoo's main contentions, which was that the English-language Yahoo.com site was outside the competence of the French court.
He set a new hearing for November 6.
It was the second time he had sought expert advice in the case brought against Yahoo by the Paris-based International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA), the Union of French Jewish Students (UEJF) and the Movement against Racism (MRAP).
Yahoo has argued that it is technically impossible to block French Internet users from websites governed by less restrictive American laws and that advertise hundreds of Nazi items such as daggers and uniforms.
Yahoo lawyer Christophe Pecnard welcomed the decision to appoint international experts. "We will cooperate with the experts in order to see if any solution is possible," he told reporters.
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