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Google held liable for copyright infringement for bulk scanning of books

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • France
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  • 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

Peer to peer (P2P) legislation

  • Abril Abogados
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  • Canada, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • December 13 2012

Since 2006, when the first European Regulation against illegal downloading was enacted by Finland, most of EU Member States have followed the example

Hadopi 2 gets nod from Constitutional Council

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • December 9 2009

On 22 October 2009, the French Constitutional Council gave a favourable decision on "Hadopi 2"

Publication of the fourth "HADOPI" decree

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • France
  • -
  • May 6 2011

The decree relating to the factors used by the High Authority for the distribution and protection of protected works on the Internet (HADOPI) was published in the Journal Officiel on 13 April 2011

Paris High Court applies French law in book scanning case

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • France
  • -
  • 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

Advocate General's opinion in the three French Google keyword references

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • European Union, France
  • -
  • September 23 2009

The Advocate General delivered his widely anticipated opinion today in three references to the European Court of Justice involving whether the AdWords system operated by Google amounted to trade mark infringement

French Court of Cassation rules on data protection and online copyright infringement

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
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  • France
  • -
  • February 11 2009

In SACEM v. Cyrille Saminadin (Cour de Cassation, chambre criminelle, 13 janvier 2009), the SACEM (a representative body of authors, composers, and music editors) asked one of its agents to carry out an investigation and to collect evidence of copyright infringements on a peer-to-peer network

MP3 streaming website fined 1million for IP infringement

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • October 19 2009

Radioblogclub.fr, a French website dedicated to MP3 streaming, was fined 1million for intellectual property (IP) infringement

EU sends conflicting messages on keyword advertising

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • European Union, France
  • -
  • 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

Paris Court of Appeal holds that Dailymotion is a host and did not have knowledge of infringing material

  • Bird & Bird
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  • France
  • -
  • October 27 2009

The Paris Court of Appeal has held, overruling a previous First Instance Court decision, that the Dailymotion video sharing website was not liable for copyright infringement since it had not received adequate notification that content posted to its website by users was unlawful