Netherlands: : Court of Appeal overturns judgment against broadcaster for criticising telecom provider

• Autores: Sarah Johanna Eskens
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 7, 2015
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In its judgment of 24 April 2015, the Dutch Court of Appeal of Amsterdam refused to declare an item about a telecom provider a tortious act, even though it was in bad taste. A Dutch broadcasting organisation called BNN-VARA, the appellant in this case, broadcast a show in which it devoted attention to various complaints about the telecom provider Pretium, the respondent. The show started with an item that told the story of an old lady who had been unable to use her telephone line in the final weeks of her life, because of a failure of her telephone company. Sober music and shots of one of the old lady’s family members who was visiting her grave accompanied the story. The court of first instance agreed with the telecom provider that this particular item was unlawful and that the broadcaster had to pay damages. Subsequently, the broadcaster filed an appeal