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24.11.2008
Urteil zur Haftung für Hyperlinks in Kanada |
Der Supreme Court of British Columbia hatte in
Crookes v. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (B.C. Sup.
Ct. Aug. 29, 2008) zu entscheiden, ob sich
derjenige, der einen Link zu einem
verleumderischen Beitrag setzt, selbst wegen
Beleidigung haftbar sein kann. Das Gericht
gelangte zu einer differenzierten Sichtweise.
Eine Verantwortlichkeit sei nur dann gegeben,
wenn der Linkprovider sich selbst zu einer
Aussage hinreißen lasse, aber nicht alleine
aufgrund des Links:
"[32] In the present case, although
hyperlinks referred the reader to articles now
claimed by the plaintiffs to be defamatory, the
plaintiffs agree that the defendant did not
publish any defamatory content on the p2pnet
website itself. The defendant did not reproduce
any of the disputed content from the linked
articles on p2pnet and did not make any comment
on the nature of the linked articles. In these
circumstances, a reader of the p2pnet website
who did not click on the hyperlinks provided
would not have any knowledge of the allegedly
defamatory content.
...
[34] I do not wish to be
misunderstood. It is not my decision that
hyperlinking can never make a person liable for
the contents of the remote site. For example, if
Mr. Newton had written "the truth about Wayne
Crookes is found here" and "here" is hyperlinked
to the specific defamatory words, this might
lead to a different conclusion."
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