Edmund Heaphy, Quartz; The unique legal concept that led to Germany’s weird wifi laws
"Germany is about to get a lot more free wifi. One of the country’s highest courts has upheld a 2017 law designed to put an end to the effect of a peculiar legal concept known as Störerhaftung as it applies to public wifi networks.
For more than a decade, Störerhaftung—most commonly
translated as “interferer’s liability”—meant that providers of public
wifi could be held liable for copyright infringement committed by users
of their networks. That had an obvious chilling effect: By some
measures, Germany, the EU’s largest economy, has around half the number of cafes with free wifi hotspots per capita than countries like the UK, Austria, and Sweden.
The court ruling means that, at long last, German businesses can be
confident that the law will protect them from prosecution for such
copyright infringement."
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