Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Yandex Released from Libel Claim

A Moscow arbitrazh (commercial) appeals court affirmed the dismissal of a libel suit against search engine Yandex. In one of Russia’s few judgments addressing the issue, the court held that Yandex, by enabling the allegedly libelous information to be searched, did not “distribute” it within the meaning of the Civil Code provisions on libel.
www.vedomosti.ru/newspaper/article/2009/12/01/220237

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