Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 16, 2012 at 12:25:00 PM CET
The owner of an online social network cannot be obliged to install a general filtering system
JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Third Chamber)
16 February 2012 (*)
(Information society – Copyright – Internet – Hosting service provider – Processing of information stored on an online social networking platform – Introducing a system for filtering that information in order to prevent files being made available which infringe copyright – No general obligation to monitor stored information)
In Case C‑360/10,
REFERENCE for a preliminary ruling under Article 267 TFEU from the rechtbank van eerste aanleg te Brussel (Belgium), made by decision of 28 June 2010, received at the Court on 19 July 2010, in the proceedings
Belgische Vereniging van Auteurs, Componisten en Uitgevers CVBA (SABAM)
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Netlog NV,
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