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Sentence imposed for "camcording"

Baker & McKenzie
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France
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May 31 2012

On 12 January 2012, the Criminal Court of Dax sentenced a "camcording" pirate to nine months in prison (subject to reprieve) and to pay 373,500 in damages

Scope of the authorisation to broadcast a person's image

Baker & McKenzie
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France
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May 11 2012

The French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation) has rendered a decision relating to the scope of the authorisation to broadcast a person's image under French contract law

Search engines for real estate advertisements deemed lawful

Baker & McKenzie
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France
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May 3 2012

Several websites (the Websites) have been sued for automatically listing real estate advertisements posted on other websites and providing links to the web pages where the advertisements are posted

Organisation in charge of collecting the private copying levy held liable for damages

Baker & McKenzie
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France
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March 28 2012

Since France's rate for the private copy levy is one of the highest in Europe, Rueducommerce, an e-commerce website, argued that it lost customers because online merchants located in other EU Member States which do not have such a levy system can sell their goods at a lower price compared to online merchants located in France

Fine imposed for disparaging former employer online

Baker & McKenzie
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France
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March 16 2012

Believing his dismissal was unjustified, a former employee of an insurance company created a new social networking profile and used a pseudonym to disparage his former employer

Court of Appeal dismisses application questioning constitutionality of the online gaming law

Baker & McKenzie
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France
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November 25 2011

In a decision dated 28 June 2011, the Paris Court of Appeal refused to admit the application for a priority preliminary ruling on the issue of constitutionality (question prioritaire de constitutionnalité or QPC) raised by Darty Telecom regarding Articles 61 and 69 of the Law dated 12 May 2010 concerning the opening of the market of online gaming

Company held liable for CEO's negative comments on Twitter

Baker & McKenzie
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France
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November 10 2011

In a decision dated 26 July 2011, the Paris Commercial Court penalised the company Zlio for the defamation committed by its CEO against a service provider on Twitter

Court prevents music company from pulling out songs from online music service

Baker & McKenzie
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France
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November 3 2011

In a summary judgment dated 5 September 2011, the Paris Court rejected Universal's request to order Deezer, an online music service, to remove all of Universal's songs from Deezer's free music catalogue

Court upholds imprisonment and fine of administrator of BitTorrent website

Baker & McKenzie
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France
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October 25 2011

Following a complaint by the French rights holder group, SACEM, in June 2008, police arrested the administrator of two BitTorrent related sites - torrentnews.net, a links forum, and torrent-public-center.com, a meta-search engine

The High Court of Paris dismisses suit by collecting society against video sharing site

Baker & McKenzie
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France
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July 19 2011

The High Court of Paris has rejected a legal action for alleged "acts of infringement" initiated by the Civil Society of Phonogram Producers in France (SPPF), the French collecting society managing the rights of independent record producers, against YouTube