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Yahoo!'s Legal Battle in France and in the USA

Yahoo!'s Legal Battle in France and in the USA Legal Issues of Economic Integration 29(2): 195­203, 2002. © 2002 Kluwer Law International. Printed in the Netherlands. US Federal District Court, (N.D. Cal.), 7 November 2001, 169 F. Supp. 2d. 1181, Yahoo!, Inc. v. La Ligue Contre Le Racisme et L'antisémitisme * 1. Introduction The Internet poses various new legal problems in the existing legal system due to its borderless nature. There have been many cases in different jurisdictions that directly or indirectly dealt with how to cope with the problems. Among the different problems arising from the nature of the Internet, the problem of jurisdiction and enforcement of foreign judgment are gaining more and more importance in the context of the growing global electronic commerce. An American Non-Governmental Organization, Center for Democracy and Technology described this problem as follows: Users of the Internet benefit from the network's ability to free them from geographic limits on what they can see, do, and experience online. By its nature, the Internet enables new connections between people worldwide ­ but it raises important questions in doing so. Governments of the offline world are struggling to deal with critical questions about the limits of their jurisdiction over the Internet, and the ability http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Legal Issues of Economic Integration Kluwer Law International

Yahoo!'s Legal Battle in France and in the USA

Legal Issues of Economic Integration , Volume 29 (2) – Jan 1, 2002

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Legal Issues of Economic Integration 29(2): 195­203, 2002. © 2002 Kluwer Law International. Printed in the Netherlands. US Federal District Court, (N.D. Cal.), 7 November 2001, 169 F. Supp. 2d. 1181, Yahoo!, Inc. v. La Ligue Contre Le Racisme et L'antisémitisme * 1. Introduction The Internet poses various new legal problems in the existing legal system due to its borderless nature. There have been many cases in different jurisdictions that directly or indirectly dealt with how to cope with the problems. Among the different problems arising from the nature of the Internet, the problem of jurisdiction and enforcement of foreign judgment are gaining more and more importance in the context of the growing global electronic commerce. An American Non-Governmental Organization, Center for Democracy and Technology described this problem as follows: Users of the Internet benefit from the network's ability to free them from geographic limits on what they can see, do, and experience online. By its nature, the Internet enables new connections between people worldwide ­ but it raises important questions in doing so. Governments of the offline world are struggling to deal with critical questions about the limits of their jurisdiction over the Internet, and the ability

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