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Deutsch: Einspruch von Azeri Bloggern vom Höchstgericht abgewiesen

The Azerbaijani Supreme Court took a disturbing decision on 19 August 2010 rejecting the appeal by bloggers and activists Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade thus upholding the previous decisions taken by the lower courts in 2009 that convicted the two bloggers under false accusations of hooliganism.

The two bloggers were arrested on 8 July 2009 after having appealed to the police as victims of an assault in a restaurant and, on 11 November 2009, Baku's Sabail district court sentenced them to 2 and 2,5 years of imprisonment respectively, on charge of hooliganism.

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Deutsch: Deutschland: Hosting-Unternehmen müssen keine Wortfilter einsetzen

The Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf decided on 21 July 2010 that RapidShare, as a hosting company, is not guilty of copyright infringement.

RapidShare has faced several cases in court for copyright infringement and in December 2009 lost a case in a local German court to Capelight Pictures movie studio which accused the site of not having taken all reasonable measures to counter the illegal distribution of one of its films.

However, after RapidShare appealed the decision, the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf overturned the 2009 decision.

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Deutsch: Netzsperren: Zunehmender Druck auf die Türkei

As Turkey continues its ban on Google's YouTube and other services, it attracts more and more criticism. After Turkey's President Abdullah Gul himself has taken position against its own government in this matter, it is now OSCE turn to react.

On 22 June 2010, Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, asked the Turkish authorities to restore access to Google's YouTube and other services and change the much-criticized Law No. 5651 (so-called Internet Law) in order to be in line with international standards on free expression.

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Deutsch: Asociación de Internautas wendet sich wegen Gerichtsurteil an Europä...

Asociación de Internautas (the Spanish Association of Internet Users - AI) has recently denounced to the European Commission (EC) the Spanish Supreme Court decision in the case introduced by SGAE (the General Society of Authors and Editors) in March 2004.

In its ruling at the end of December 2009, the Supreme Court decided against AI and later on ordered the association to remove the website "putasgae.org" and pay SGAE damages for user generated content that insulted SGAE and other persons and entities.

The association considers that the sentence has ignored the Spanish as well a

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Deutsch: Spanien: Oberster Gerichtshof verurteilt NGO wegen des Hostens offensi...

At the end of December 2009, the Spanish Supreme Court confirmed its ruling in making Asociación de Internautas (Internet Users Association - AI) pay a 18 000 Euro fine to SGAE (the General Society of Authors and Editors) for having hosted sites such as putasgae.org and antisgae.internaturas.org which included offences to SGAE.

The case was introduced by SGAE in March 2004 which stated that the website of AI was hosting webpages with the addresses mentioned above, which contained expressions like "hired gun", "mob gang", "fucking pickpockets".

On 6 February 2006, the

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Deutsch: Aserbaidschanische Blogger vom Gericht in Baku missbräuchlich verurte...

On 11 November 2009, two Azerbaijani bloggers were found guilty on hooliganism and violence charges by a court in Baku and sentenced to two years and two years and a half prison respectively.

Bloggers and political activists Adnan Hajizade and Emin Abdullayev were arrested on 8 July 2009 on false charges of "hooliganism" after they had posted a video on YouTube mocking the purchase of donkeys from Germany by the Azeri Government.

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Deutsch: Finnland: Beschwerden über die Kinderpornografieliste der Polizei nic...

The Helsinki Administrative court decided on 20 May 2009 that complaints lodged in regards to the child-porn censorship list maintained by the Finnish Police are not allowed.

The case originates from one Finnish activist's "battle" against the censorship list maintained by the Finnish police and originally the censorship law passed by the Finnish Parliament in 2006, meant to combat child pornography.

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Deutsch: Französisches Gericht trifft klare Entscheidungen bei gehosteten Inha...

Several decisions taken by the French courts lately recognize the principle of non-liablilty of some web 2.0 sites for the content hosted. The new interpretation is putting things back on track, after some earlier strange decisions of the lower courts.

Dailymotion, the French video sharing site, has recently benefited of three decisions in its favour, in each case the site being considered as a mere hosting site and thus not liable for copyright infringement.