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Advocate General provides opinion in the Google France Adwords cases

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • European Union, France
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  • November 19 2009

The Advocate General has released his opinion in the Google Adwords cases being brought in the French courts

Paris High Court applies French law in book scanning case

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • France
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  • March 22 2010

The 3rd Chamber of the Paris High Court (the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris) decided to apply French law to a case involving Google and French book editors

Website hosting provider considered an editor

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • France
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  • March 29 2010

The French Supreme Court (the Cour de Cassation) has confirmed the position of the Court of Appeal, which ruled that by placing advertising spaces on personal web pages, Tiscali, a French website hosting provider, qualifies as an editor of content and is, therefore, fully responsible for such content

Online betting: court cancels trademarks of past monopoly beneficiary

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • France
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  • December 15 2010

In recent years, the fierce competition among the various actors in the online betting industry has seen many trademark disputes come before the French courts

Online gambling: first decision applying the 12 May 2010 act

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • France
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  • 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

Deep linking may not constitute copyright infringement

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • France
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  • July 2 2010

The Court of First Instance of Nanterre has ruled that a web portal that provides a deep link to the website of a software developer where the latter's software can be downloaded does not constitute copyright infringement

Social networking site ordered to remove illegal content and provide identification data about the author

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • France
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  • June 15 2010

On 13 April 2010, Facebook was ordered by the Paris Court of First Instance to (i) promptly remove a picture of a bishop who was the target of a Facebook group and (ii) provide identification data identifying the author of the allegedly defamatory content

Google Books infringes French copyrights, but not trademarks

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • France
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  • February 3 2010

The Paris High Court has found Google Inc liable for copyright infringement just as it is about to launch its new service, Google Editions, allowing consumers to purchase books that they have previewed on Google Books

Advertising does not affect the status of hosting provider

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • France
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  • 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
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  • France
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  • 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