Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Litigating Platform Liability in Europe: New Human Rights Case Law in the Real World

This is the third of four posts on the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECHR) rulings in Delfi v. Estonia and MTE v. Hungary. In both cases, national courts held online news portals liable for comments posted by their users – even though the platforms did not know about them. These rulings effectively required platforms to monitor and delete user comments in order to avoid liability.



Read Full Story from Of Interest http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2016/04/litigating-platform-liability-europe-new-human-rights-case-law-real-world
This article by Daphne Keller originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on April 13, 2016 at 03:00PM

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