Facebook will appeal a ruling made by the Supreme Court in Paris in March, which established that the social media giant is accountable to French law. The case centred on the website’s removal of an image of Courbet’s The Origin of the World, 1866, as it contravened regulations on nudity. The image had been posted by a teacher who then sued Facebook. Lawyers for the social media website argue that when joining the site all users agree to pursue litigation in the courts in California, a clause which the French judge described as “abusive”.
