Criminal minded
March 31st, 2008, Tomasz RychlickiThe Polish Supreme Court hold in its judgement that publishing news on Internet website is equivalent to press publishing (act signature IV KK 0174/07, PDF file, in Polish language). The District Court in Słupsk has ruled that the editor of www.gby.pl website (local portal website for the town of Bytów) should register his website as press (act signature VI Ka 409/07). However, accroding to regulations provided in the Polish Act of 26 January 1984 on Press law (Dziennik Ustaw No 5, pos. 24 with later changes), only publishing a daily newspaper or a newspaper requires registration (article 20). My friend Piotr Waglowski started to compile a report of Polish officials who are publishing news on the Internet. This report may be used as the offcial crime notification soon. There is our President Lech Kaczyński and Prime Minister Donald Tusk on the list as well as some Members of the European Parliament (for instance Marek Siwiec - Vice President of the European Parliament). Go get them all Piotr! Dura lex sed lex. Personally, I think we should (i) change the law (ii) educate some judges.