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France forces Google to help people break the law. Vraiment.

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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France
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November 27 2010

Following fair competition concerns raised by the French Competition Authority (Autorité de la concurrence), Google agreed to make the rules of its AdWords program more transparent and predictable

EU sends conflicting messages on keyword advertising

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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European Union, France
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October 24 2009

Two legal opinions in the European Union have reached conflicting conclusions about whether the use of trademarked terms in keyword advertising constitutes trademark infringement

French court fines eBay 1.7 million for failing to block ads for counterfeit goods

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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France
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December 12 2009

The Tribunal de Commerce in Paris has fined eBay 1.7 million ($2.6 million) for failing to sufficiently implement filtering measures to prevent the use of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, S.A., product names in the title or body of any auction postings on the eBay website

French court chips away at immunity for third-party content

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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France
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August 7 2010

On July 20, a regional French appeals court ruled that eBay International and eBay France were liable for an eBay vendor's sale of counterfeit goods

French court finds that Google Books infringes copyright in France

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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France
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January 23 2010

Last month, in Editions du Seuil, et al., v. Google Inc., the Paris Court of First Instance ruled that Google’s digital book project infringed the copyrights of French books, and ordered Google to remove posted excerpts of French titles and to pay 300,000 ($428,535) in damages and interest to two publishers of the French group La Martinière

Batter up! New decree implements France's three strikes law

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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France
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August 14 2010

On July 27, the French government published Decree No. 2010-872, which establishes procedures for implementing a controversial "three strikes" Internet piracy law

eBay loses another trademark suit in Europe

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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France
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February 26 2010

eBay has lost another lawsuit filed by Louis Vuitton Malletier ("LVM") in France

French appeals court finds eBay liable for counterfeit goods

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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France
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September 25 2010

eBay's grueling Gallic campaign continues

French high court upholds company's review of employees' email

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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France
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April 2 2011

France’s highest court, the Cour de Cassation, has ruled in Securitas France v. M. X. that it was permissible for a company to fire an employee based in part on emails he had exchanged with another employee, with whom he had a personal relationship, in which the two employees referred to a supervisor in offensive terms

French high court holds aggregator sites immune for third-party content

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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France
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March 19 2011

France's highest court, the Cour de Cassation -- Premiere chambre civile, has ruled in two cases that aggregator Internet sites, which provide free access to videos and other online media, cannot be held responsible for third-party content since they are not publishers, but merely hosts of that content