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ECJ: European Court of Justice: 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

01 February 2012

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ECJ: European Court of Justice: 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 (Press release, pdf) and Judgment - full-text (pdf):

"Such an obligation would not be respecting the prohibition to impose on that provider a general obligation to monitor nor the requirement that a fair balance be struck between the protection of copyright, on the one hand, and the freedom to conduct business, the right to protection of personal data and the freedom to receive or impart information, on the other."

And see: EU court rules social networks cannot police downloads (euobserver, link)

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