Finnish court rules open WiFi network owner not liable for infringement

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A Finnish District Court has ruled that the owner of an open WiFi network is not liable for copyright infringement by others using that network.
“The applicants were unable to provide any evidence that the connection-owner herself had been involved in the file-sharing,” the defendant’s attorneys wrote in an English-language press release on Monday. “The court thus examined whether the mere act of providing a WiFi connection not protected with a password can be deemed to constitute a copyright-infringing act.”

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