Google search engine must be from a U.s. judge has hundreds of sites that counterfeit stuff of fashion brand Chanel sell out of the index. Also on Facebook and Twitter should not be linked to the sites, said the judge.
It is going to be approximately six hundred domain names, according to the ex-parte decision. Chanel asked a so-called preliminary injunction, which the judge can decide to a certain measure, otherwise the complaining party during the trial too much damage would add up. A well-known recent example of such a provisional remedy is the prohibition of the Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet in Germany and Australia.
Fashion brand Chanel suing the sites, because they namaakspullen sell with the brand Chanel on it. In the decision states that the listed sites via search engines and social-networking sites is not more closely linked. Below are the opinion of the court the search engines Google and Bing, and social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+. The court seems to assume that the companies behind these search engines and social-networking sites all links to the offending sites remove.
In addition, the hosting of the domains to be transferred to GoDaddy.com then visitors of the sites will be redirected to a page explaining why the page has been seized. The decision applies only to the United States; a U.s. court may not decide the sites from the Dutch versions of the search engines to pick up. Out of a sample shows that some of the sites are already offline, or refer to the page of Chanel, while others are still online.
The decision applies in each case, until the case in the American state of Nevada, continuing. It is unclear when the judge makes a final ruling is going to do. Also, it is unknown whether this case law is taken into account in other proceedings. According to a Us legal blogger, founded the ex-parte decision on weak procedural grounds and therefore, it is the question of whether the decision in the future legal value. Such decisions are exceptional, but be better if in the United States new antipiraterijwetgeving is adopted. This sopa legislation, however, is under pressure.