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Douai Court of Appeal condemns company for abusive indexing

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • January 19 2012

A company, Saveur Bière, created numerous websites whose sole purpose was to link to the main website of the company

Fine imposed for disparaging former employer online

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • France
  • -
  • 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

Online gambling: first decision applying the 12 May 2010 act

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • October 25 2010

The Paris TGI has ruled that several French internet service providers (ISPs) have to block the access to Stanjames.com (a Maltese company) within the next two months

Advertising does not affect the status of hosting provider

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • January 21 2011

The Paris Court of Appeal has confirmed, once again, Dailymotion's status as a hosting provider

French Supreme Court upholds right of company to access an employee's emails

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • March 9 2011

Confirming a line of French decisions, the French Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation) has rendered a decision on whether an employer may access its employee's emails in the workplace

Changing position of the Paris High Court on suggested search queries

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • December 7 2010

In a decision given in summary proceedings in July 2010, the Paris High Court (TGI Paris) ruled that Google was not liable when its Google Suggest service associated the word "fraud" with a company's name

Seizure of documents, including e-mails to attorney, held valid

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • France
  • -
  • April 18 2011

The French Supreme Court has ruled that seizure of e-mails is not void even though some of the e-mails seized had been sent by an attorney and were covered by professional confidentiality

Search engine held liable by Paris Court of Appeal for copyright infringement

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • May 4 2011

In four decisions dated 14 January 2011, the Paris Court of Appeal held Google Inc. and Google France liable for copyright infringement and ordered them to pay an aggregate sum of 510,000

Court upholds imprisonment and fine of administrator of BitTorrent website

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • France
  • -
  • 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

Advertisers on piracy websites are not accomplices to copyright infringement

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • April 12 2011

The French Supreme Court has affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeals and dismissed the claim of copyright holders that the advertisers on piracy websites should be considered accomplices to copyright infringement