Today marks a bright moment in the efforts to keep the internet a neutral and trusted resource for everyone.
Quad9 has received word from the courts in Dresden, Germany in the appeal of our case versus Sony Entertainment (Germany). The court has ruled in favor of Quad9, clearly and unequivocally.
Needless to say, we are elated at the news.
While formally there’s no precedence, court decisions still influence jurisprudence (I.e. the interpretation of the law), especially when supreme courts are involved.
In actual practice, an increasing degree of precedent is creeping into civil law jurisprudence, and is generally seen in many nations’ highest courts.[11] While the typical French-speaking supreme court decision is short, concise and devoid of explanation or justification, in Germanic Europe, the supreme courts can and do tend to write more verbose opinions, supported by legal reasoning.[11] A line of similar case decisions, while not precedent per se, constitute jurisprudence constante.
The last sentence also explains why Sony tried to do this in Germany: they were hoping to have a book sized legal thesis they could shop around in other European courts.
While formally there’s no precedence, court decisions still influence jurisprudence (I.e. the interpretation of the law), especially when supreme courts are involved.
From the Wikipedia article on Civil Law:
The last sentence also explains why Sony tried to do this in Germany: they were hoping to have a book sized legal thesis they could shop around in other European courts.