FC: French judge still wants to ban Yahoo from selling WWII items

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38183,00.html

   How to Halt Nazi Sales in France?
   Reuters

   8:35 a.m. Aug. 11, 2000 PDT
   PARIS -- A Paris judge ordered independent experts to investigate how
   to bar French Web surfers from tapping into online sales of Nazi
   memorabilia on websites accessed using the giant Internet portal
   Yahoo.

   Judge Jean-Jacques Gomez said on Friday that over the next two months
   one French and two foreign experts should look into ways of
   implementing his three-month-old emergency ruling ordering Yahoo to
   block the U.S.-based sites which are barred under French law.

   The judge rejected one of Yahoo's main contentions, which was that the
   English-language Yahoo.com site was outside the competence of the
   French court.

   He set a new hearing for November 6.

   It was the second time he had sought expert advice in the case brought
   against Yahoo by the Paris-based International League against Racism
   and Anti-Semitism (LICRA), the Union of French Jewish Students (UEJF)
   and the Movement against Racism (MRAP).

   Yahoo has argued that it is technically impossible to block French
   Internet users from websites governed by less restrictive American
   laws and that advertise hundreds of Nazi items such as daggers and
   uniforms.

   Yahoo lawyer Christophe Pecnard welcomed the decision to appoint
   international experts. "We will cooperate with the experts in order to
   see if any solution is possible," he told reporters.

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