10 dezembro 2002

VITAMEDIAS
Aussie Can Sue Over U.S. Internet Story: In a landmark case, Australia's highest court on Tuesday gave a businessman the right to sue for defamation in Australia over an article published in the United States and posted on the Internet.
Analysts suggest the ruling against international news service Dow Jones & Co. - the first by a nation's top court to deal with cross-border Internet defamation - could set a precedent and affect publishers and Web sites that post articles in the 190 nations that allow defamation cases. [...]
"What it means is that foreign publishers writing material about persons in Australia had better have regards to the standards of Australian law before they upload material to the Internet"
A jurisdictional tangle: Media companies around the world are alarmed by a high-court ruling in Australia
A ruling by Australia’s high court on Tuesday December 10th has further complicated the already murky question of which laws and whose courts have jurisdiction over the Internet.