Electronic Rights in Belgium and France: General Association of Professional Journalists of Belgium v. Central Station (Brussels Court of First Instance, October 16, 1996; Brussels Court of Appeals, October 28, 1997); Union of French Journalists v. SDV Plurimedia (Strasbourg Court of Grand Instance, February 3, 1998) Symposium on Electronic Rights in International Perspective

Like many national presses in Europe, the Belgian press divides ideologically. Each daily newspaper represents the views of a political party, or expresses the perspective of a political or religious belief. Newspaper readers therefore tend to select the newspaper that most closely corresponds to their world-view. Ten publishers of Belgian dailies and weeklies formed a consortium, Central Station, to operate a website that would offer a crossection of all the participating periodicals' articles on a variety of subjects. The articles would appear in print in their separate newspapers in the mor... Mehr ...