* Posts by Tomasz M. Klecor

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Proposed blogging law outrages Italian netizens

Tomasz M. Klecor

Polish bloggers need to register their blogs as an newspapers/magazines

Italian case is not first at all. In Poland bloggers need to register their blogs as a... newspaper. An Act of Press Law (Prawo Prasowe) from year 1984 says that all newspapers and magazines had to be register in court. If they're not – it is a criminal offence – in best case editor have to pay fine, but he can be also imprisoned. In July 2007 polish High Court decided that websites like blogs, etc. are also newspapers (or magazines, if they are not actualized more then three times a week) and have to registered, even if they're not printed.