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COPYRIGHT 2001 The Miami Herald
Byline: Mark Grossman
May 28--PROTECT YOURSELF WHEN DOING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ON THE WEB: If you want to be big, you have to think big. You say that you want to make your online business truly international, that's great. The Net is a wonderful tool to get you there. Just don't forget that once you, your products, or your website leave the United States, you've become a citizen of the world -- possibly subject to the law of places your feet have never touched.
Yahoo learned this lesson the hard way not too long ago. In France, a local group sued Yahoo over the availability of Nazi memorabilia on the Yahoo auction site. They claimed that it violated French laws that prohibit the display and sale of racist material.
THE FRENCH COURT: The French court ruled against Yahoo and ordered it to either remove the memorabilia from...
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