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(1) Definitions. According to Article 7 para 2 pt 2 of the Press Law Act press is defined as “any and all existing and emerging in the course of technological advancement means of mass media, including broadcasting stations and television and radio broadcasting systems installed in facilities that distribute periodically publications via print, image, sound or any other broadcasting means” allowing to qualify all periodical online publications as press, resulting in editorial liability for service providers. The terms “publications” and “periodical” have no legal definitions therefore their dictionary definitions apply, with “publications” referring to all content enabled publicly and “periodically” designating content updated within certain amounts of time. In the context of Article 7 para 2 pt 1, which explicitly...

Joanna Kulesza, Polish Supreme Court: All Electronic Press Must be Registered, EDRi, January 12, 2011, https://edri.org/edrigramnumber9-1polish-electronic-press-registration-compulsory Joanna Kulesza, Internet Service Providers Liability for Free Speech On-Line, in 5th Warsaw Seminar on Human Rights 240 – 247 (J. Czaputowicz, M. Szpunar (eds.), Warsaw 2012) EDRi, No Intermediary Liability for Bloggers, EDRi, March 27, 2013, http://edri.org/edrigramnumber11-6no-intermediary-liability-bloggers