A company that feels it has been defamed online can ask for compensation through the justice system in the member state where the ‘centre of its interests’ is located, in other worlds in the country where its reputation has been the most damaged, said advocate general Michal Bobek in conclusions issued on Thursday 13 July in case C-194/16.
Estonian company Bolagsupplysningen does most of its business in Sweden. It has been put on an online blacklist on the Svensk Handel website, an...