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ACTA - The owner of social network cannot be obliged to install filtering system
Court of Justice of the European Union
PRESS RELEASE No 11/12
Luxembourg, 16 February 2012
The owner of an online social network cannot be obliged to install a general filtering
system, covering all its users, in order to prevent the unlawful use of musical and
audio-visual work
Such an obligation would not be respecting the prohibition to impose on that provider a general
obligation to monitor nor the requirement that a fair balance be struck between the protection of
copyright, on the one hand, and the freedom to conduct business, the right to protection of
personal data and the freedom to receive or impart information, on the other
- ergo14 15y agoThe owner of an online social network cannot be obliged to install a general filtering system, covering all its users, in order to prevent the unlawful use of musical and audio-visual work Such an obligation would not be respecting the prohibition to impose on that provider a general obligation to monitor nor the requirement that a fair balance be struck between the protection of copyright, on the one hand, and the freedom to conduct business, the right to protection of personal data and the freedom to receive or impart information, on the other