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Reporting the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg today, as they rejected Max Mosley’s attempt to impose a “pre-notification” obligation on journalists who are planning to run a story infringing a person’s privacy, most of the press are describing it as a victory for free speech
The ECJ has held that an order imposed by a Belgian court, which required an internet service provider (“ISP”) to filter and block access by its customers to files containing infringing copies of musical works, was incompatible with EU law. (Scarlet Extended SA v Société belge des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs SCRL, Case C-7010, 24 November 2011
