Musician asks The Washington Post to delete negative review because of the EU's 'right to be forgotten' law

Musician asks The Washington Post to delete negative review because of the EU's 'right to be forgotten' law
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Pianist Dejan Lazic wants to take down negative reviews of his work online — and he's using the legal system to do so.

Lazic lives in Europe, and the EU ruled in May that people have a "right to be forgotten" online. So Lazic requested that The Washington Post remove a 2010 review of one of his performances. Apparently, the review has "marred the first page of his Google results for years," according to Caitlin Dewey at the Post.

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Meghan DeMaria

Meghan DeMaria is a staff writer at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked for USA Today and Marie Claire.