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French Supreme Court: Google did not abuse dominant position

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • June 3 2013

On 16 April 2013, the French Supreme Court upheld the Paris Court of Appeals decision of 16 November 2011, thus confirming that Google did not abuse

Google held liable for copyright infringement for bulk scanning of books

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • France
  • -
  • February 28 2010

The Paris Court of First Instance's third chamber has ruled that Google Inc.’s bulk scanning of books for its Google Book Search website, done without permission from copyright holders, infringed the copyrights on hundreds of French books

Measures to limit online copyright infringement

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • European Union, France
  • -
  • November 19 2012

The creative industries argue that piracy costs the industry £400m a year in lost revenue

Supreme Court confirms use of competitor's trademark as keyword

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • June 3 2013

The Supreme Court has reaffirmed that a company is allowed to use a competitor's trademark as a keyword in Google's AdWords service, holding that

A free internet once again for France?

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • January 9 2013

At the start of this year, the second-largest French ISP, Free, took the surprising decision to release an update for its customers which allowed them to

Selective distribution for cosmetics and EU competition rules on online sales

  • Portolano Cavallo Studio Legale
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  • European Union, France
  • -
  • March 16 2011

On March 3 2011 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) Advocate General Ján Mazák issued a nonbinding opinion on Pierre Fabre Dermo-Cosmétique SAS v Président de l'Autorité de la Concurrence and Ministre de l'Économie, de l'Industrie et de l'Emploi (Case C-43909

GPEN and CNIL review online privacy notices during internet sweep

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
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  • France
  • -
  • May 8 2013

On May 6, 2013, the Global Privacy Enforcement Network ("GPEN") announced its first "Internet Privacy Sweep," in which 19 data protection authorities

The global employer: the social media issue

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • September 25 2012

Social media is changing the way that we communicate, work and do business, wherever we are in the world

French court finds Google has editorial control over AdWords advertising

  • Portolano Cavallo Studio Legale
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  • France
  • -
  • December 13 2011

On November 14 2011 the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris (TGI) ruled against Google France and Google Ireland, finding that their AdWords service allowed a company to use an individual’s name as a keyword to trigger links to an article and photographs that infringed the individual’s rights to private life

France - SACEM, Universal Music and YouTube agreement on the remuneration of authors

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • April 30 2013

On 3 April 2013, the French music collecting society SACEM, Universal Music Publishing International and YouTube have announced to have entered into