Will yesterday's ECJ ruling concerning an article about Kylie Minogue on a British website make it easier to sue online publications?

A ruling in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) yesterday would appear to shift the axis for law suits against websites and online publications to protect the image of celebrities and others who want to control the way they are seen in public. The ruling, in respect of a case brought by the French actor Olivier Martinez against the Sunday Mirror, says that people may sue for what are called 'personality rights' in the country where they live. 'Personality rights' is about controlling your own publicity or image. Previously, you could only sue in the country where the publisher is based, or in countries where the information is distributed.

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It was widely believed that the US government pressured Sweden over the Pirate Bay indictment, now there is a sliver of evidence...

A recently-emerged US diplomatic cable from 2009 suggests that American government officials assisted the rights-holders in compling the case against The Pirate Bay, and may have also assisted the Swedish authorities. The text - seen by iptegrity.com and copied here - reads:

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20^th Century Fox v BT: Can an ISP have 'not the right kind of knowledge' in respect of copyright enforcement liability?

Second report on the case from last Wednesday in the High Court, when I attended the hearing.

The case of Twentieth Century Fox v BT (the Motion Picture Association of America 's European arm suing British Telecommunications) could be a key landmark case for copyright enforcement on the Internet. At stake is whether an ISP in Europe can be ordered to block a website which is alleged to be infringing copyright. The legal chasm between the two parties is the meaning of 'actual

Read more: Hollywood v BT: the wrong kind of knowledge?