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Websites linking to third-party content - recent decisions

  • William Fry
  • -
  • France, United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 2 2013

A number of recent cases have raised questions about whether or not the common practice of website linking can amount to copyright infringement. A

HADOPI eport

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • February 28 2013

On 25 February 2013, the High Authority of Diffusion on the Art Works and Protection of Rights on the Internet (HADOPI) submitted its report on the

New clarification concerning the (non-) liability of hosts

  • Bersay & Associes
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • November 26 2012

The French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation) handed down three rulings on 12 July 2012 in cases involving Google France and Google Inc. in particular

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

Are German shepherds more obedient than French poodles?

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • France, Germany
  • -
  • August 25 2012

Perhaps

Copyright infringement by digitalization of photos by press agency without explicit authorization?

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • July 20 2012

The First Civil Chamber of the French Supreme Court rendered a decision on the digitalization of photos by a press agency without express authorization from the photographer

YouTube wins piracy case against French broadcaster TF1. How Pinteresting

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • June 13 2012

A French court has ruled that YouTube was not responsible for large amounts of copyright protected films and TV shows uploaded illegally to its site

Organisation in charge of collecting the private copying levy held liable for damages

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • March 28 2012

Since France's rate for the private copy levy is one of the highest in Europe, Rueducommerce, an e-commerce website, argued that it lost customers because online merchants located in other EU Member States which do not have such a levy system can sell their goods at a lower price compared to online merchants located in France

The High Court of Paris dismisses suit by collecting society against video sharing site

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • July 19 2011

The High Court of Paris has rejected a legal action for alleged "acts of infringement" initiated by the Civil Society of Phonogram Producers in France (SPPF), the French collecting society managing the rights of independent record producers, against YouTube

Creator of French bittorrent website TorrentNews loses appeal

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • July 14 2011

The Court of Appeal of Aix-en-Provence has upheld the decision of the Court of First Instance and sentenced the creator of the website TorrentNews to a four-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 20,000 for copyright piracy

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