[pp.int.general] French court forces news page to publish content?

Christian pp at christian-hufgard.de
Mon Jun 15 17:54:44 CEST 2009


Valentin Villenave wrote:
> 2009/6/15 Christian <pp at christian-hufgard.de>:
>> http://www.numerama.com/magazine/13131-Aidez-Numerama-a-bien-investir-10000-euros-offerts-par-les-majors-MAJ.html
>>
>> If that's true, die french pirate should offer themselves as a valid
>> donation object...
> 
> It is not uncommon in France that a court order forces a newspaper or
> a magazine to publish a related judgement. In this specific case, the
> judges have ordered the 'numerama' anti-HADOPI webzine to publish
> several conviction statements in 'piracy'-related cases.
> 
> All things considered, I am not shocked; if anything, that merely
> gives this webzine some kind of a legitimacy which it didn't have
> before, so we'd certainly be happy to be picked next time -- not to
> mention the financial advantages :-)

Mkaaay. And how does a court decide, which magazine they pay a lot of
money to publish news?

Christian


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