EurActiv.com/Reuters – The Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in a case involving two Belgian companies, music royalty collecting society SABAM and online social network Netlog.
“The owner of an online social network cannot be obliged to install a general filtering system, covering all its users, in order to prevent the unlawful use of musical and audio-visual work,” the ECJ said in a statement.
“Such an injunction would result in a serious infringement of Netlog’s freedom to conduct its business since it would require Netlog to install a complicated, costly, permanent computer system at its own expense,” it said. more> http://is.gd/6GMA4S
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