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> European law considers Thankfully foreign laws don't magically propagate over the internet, even if a citizen of a country happens to point their web browser
by strictnein 8y ago
> European law considers
Thankfully foreign laws don't magically propagate over the internet, even if a citizen of a country happens to point their web browser at your server.
- marcus_holmes 8y agoAs I said: yes, yes they do exactly that.
- fauigerzigerk 8y agoIANAL, but I think if you have a business establishment in a country then yes it may propagate in some shape or form, but I don't know the details. For instance, it may depend on distinctions such as subsidiary vs branch office. Facebook does have a business establishment within the EU. They are selling ads in Europe that are delivered to EU users. There is no way that Facebook can claim not to be a European company in some sense.
- mirimir 8y agoRight. And so, to escape the EU Copyright Directive, they would need to exit the EU entirely, utterly, completely, etc. Maybe that seems extreme and unlikely. But consider. What would Facebook be left with, if users couldn't share anything?
- fauigerzigerk 8y agoYou'll see. They will come to some arrangement with the publishers and regulators. Facebook will not lose a quarter of its revenues and profits over this. The problem is that not many have the clout of Facebook and Google to work out arrangements that won't kill them or fight the whole thing effectively.
- infimum 8y agoGP explicitly stated a case where the US did the same. So for all intents and purposes the law does propagate 'magically' over the internet. Well, at least US law does.
- specializeded 8y agoThe EU isn’t the US, and the US isn’t New Zealand.
- marcus_holmes 8y agoThe EU does include France, though, and the example of French law constraining Yahoo's behaviour is relevant.