Nude painting furore: court rules Facebook can be sued in France
by Associated Press in Paris from on (#13R8J)
Teacher wins right to sue over suspension of account after he posted photo of Gustave Courbet's The Origin of the World
A court has ruled that Facebook can be sued in France over its decision to remove the account of a French user who posted a photo of a famous 19th-century nude painting.
The ruling by the Paris appeal court could set a legal precedent in the country, where Facebook has more than 30 million regular users.
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