Blogme.gr case

Plimmeleiodikeio Athinon [Athens Magistrates Court]
Document type
Court Decision
Country
(1) The court acquitted the administrator of a blog aggregator website, after a Greek TV personality sued him for defamation and indecency over comments posted about him on another blog, whose content the defendant’s website aggregated.
(2) Based on P.D. 131/2003 and Directive 2000/31/EC, as well as Greek legislation regarding the liability of news vendors, the court decided that the defendant was an intermediary and could not be held liable for the content of blogs aggregated on his website.
Country
Year
2013
Topic, claim, or defense
Defamation or Personality Rights
Telecommunication (Includes Net Neutrality)
Document type
Court Decision
Issuing entity
Lowest Domestic Court
Type of service provider
Host (Including Social Networks)
Type of law
Civil
General effect on immunity
Strengthens Immunity
General intermediary liability model
Complete Immunity