Juridisch weblog voor de media
Court of Utrecht in summary proceedings, 21 November 2007, LJN: BB8341, Wegener ICT Media B.V./Innoweb B.V.
Innoweb operates a so-called ‘meta search engine’ through the website Gaspedaal.nl. On this search engine the visitor can search the used car offers on seven different car sites, including the site of the claimant Wegener: Autotrack.nl, with the help of a number of selection criteria. [Read more…] about Meta Search Engine Gaspedaal.nl Walks Free
Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights of 22 November 2007
In 2000 the Amsterdam Court of Appeal, in the notorious trial against Mink K., ordered the detention of Koen Voskuil, a journalist of the daily newspaper Sp!ts, in order to compel him to reveal the identity of his source which he refused. [Read more…] about ECHR Finds the Netherlands Guilty of Violating the Journalistic Right of Non-Disclosure (Voskuil
In Indonesia former dictator Suharto has pressed charges against Time Magazine. Suharto considered an article devoted to him to be a libelous. The Indonesian Supreme Court has ordered Time Magazine to pay damages in the amount of 77 million euro. Kennedy Van der Laan is involved [Read more…] about Back to Newsletter January 2008 The Case of Suharto Against Time Magazine Asia
Personal Data Protection Act is partly not applicable to journalistic publications, provided that a number of conditions have been met.
The Personal Data Protection Act (Wet bescherming persoonsgegevens, “Wbp”) is partly not applicable to journalistic publications in which personal data are included, if the personal data are published ‘for exclusively journalistic purposes’. [Read more…] about The Publication of Personal Data on the Internet for Journalistic Purposes
Photograph may not be published again in Vrij Nederland (Court of Amsterdam in Preliminary Relief Proceedings, 13 September 2007, LJN BB3558)
The weekly magazine Vrij Nederland has been giving an account of the Holleeder case and all related matters for quite some time now. Bram Zeegers was a confidant of the murdered Willem Endstra and has testified against Holleeder. [Read more…] about Security Risk for Witness against Holleeder
A discussion of the judgment of the Court of Appeal of The Hague dated 19 July 2007
In January 2007 the Court of The Hague ruled that wholesaler Makro was allowed to offer jeans of the clothing brand G-Star for sale in Makro’s customary manner using the G-Star device mark. [Read more…] about G-Star cannot oppose distribution by wholesale trader
A discussion of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights dated 14 June 2006 (no. 71111/01, Hachette/France)
In 1998 the French magazine Paris-Match published a photograph of the murdered prefect Claude Erignac. The French court ordered the magazine to publish a corrective statement. [Read more…] about French Magazine not Allowed to Publish Photograph of Murdered Politician
