CATO Institute Issues Briefing Paper on Internet Jurisdiction

The CATO Institute recently issued a briefing paper authored by Robert Corn-Revere, a US attorney who co-wrote an amicus brief in the French case which involved the liability in France of Yahoo! for having its users offer for sale Nazi artefacts. The author argues that US courts should continue to accord the Internet with wide freedom of speech protection and reject attempts to enforce foreign judgements amounting to censorship. The paper surveys representative national and international attempts to regulate Web content, in addition to summarizing the French Yahoo! case and related US jurisprudence including that of Yahoo!'s subsequent declaratory judgment action in the US District Court of the Northern District of California. To view a copy of the paper, visit: http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp71.pdf To view an executive summary of the Paper, visit: http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp-071es.html