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Human rights court: Website not liable for anonymous comment
On 9 March 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) published its unanimous ruling in the case of Pihl v. Sweden. It declared that a non-profit association was not liable for an anonymous defamatory comment posted on its blog. The plaintiff Rolf Anders Daniel Pihl had made a civil claim against the small non-profit […]
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MTE v. Hungary: the ECtHR rules again on intermediary liability
On 2 February 2016, the Fourth Section of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) came back in judging on the matter of intermediary liability. In ‘MTE and Index v. Hungary’, the ECtHR held that freedom of expression as recognised in Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights was violated. The court had […]
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