Google has fought in courtrooms around the world in recent years, arguing that it is not responsible for the content in its search results, and this month it lost a battle in Australia. The Supreme Court of Victoria ruled on November 12th that Google is responsible for having published search results leading to a defamatory page which contained rumors that Michael Trkulja, a music promoter, was linked to murder and organized crime. Google argued, as it has in the past, that it's not responsible for offensive material that other people host on the web — a defense that's been met with mixed results internationally. In January, a French court fined Google and ordered it to change unfavorable search results that linked a French insurance...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/26/3694908/google-defamation-australia-publisher
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