Mikkel deMib Svendsen
08-26-2004, 03:10 PM
This is interesting:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200408/s1185545.htm
I have always agued (mostly for def ears) that US companies will have to comply with the laws of the countries they target - or allow into their site.
I like this quote from the case that International Herald Tribune had:
http://www.iht.com/articles/535636.html
"Yahoo cannot expect both to benefit from the fact that its content may be viewed around the world and to be shielded from the resulting costs," Ferguson wrote in the 35-page decision. Judge Melvin Brunetti, dissented, saying because French groups specifically "targeted" Yahoo in California, U.S. courts should have jurisdiction.
I agree very much to that. If american companies, or any company for that matter, what to be global they have to comply with local law.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200408/s1185545.htm
I have always agued (mostly for def ears) that US companies will have to comply with the laws of the countries they target - or allow into their site.
I like this quote from the case that International Herald Tribune had:
http://www.iht.com/articles/535636.html
"Yahoo cannot expect both to benefit from the fact that its content may be viewed around the world and to be shielded from the resulting costs," Ferguson wrote in the 35-page decision. Judge Melvin Brunetti, dissented, saying because French groups specifically "targeted" Yahoo in California, U.S. courts should have jurisdiction.
I agree very much to that. If american companies, or any company for that matter, what to be global they have to comply with local law.