IP: Italian court says it has authority to close foreign web sites

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:41:27 -0500
>From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
>
>http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=151018
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>Italy: Foreign 'Net sites can be closed
>Wednesday, 10 January 2001 13:17 (ET)
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>  ROME, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- A landmark case of defamation over the Internet led
>to an Italian court Wednesday to rule that foreign-based Internet sites that
>contravene Italian law can be shut down, the ANSA news agency reported.
>
>  It was not immediately clear, however, how such an order could be
>implemented or enforced.
>
>  The ruling came in an appeal in the Court of Cassation by a Jewish man --
>identified only as Moshe D. -- who said he had been defamed by a number of
>Web sites that claimed he had kidnapped his two daughters, was holding them
>in the city of Genoa and was raising them in defiance of Jewish law.
>
>[...]
>
>  Both the preliminary hearings judge and a higher tribunal had said the
>case went beyond their jurisdiction since the allegedly defamatory material
>originated outside Italy. However, the Court of Cassation Wednesday ruled
>Italy has jurisdiction since end-users connect to the sites from Italian
>territory.
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