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  • The Supreme Court makes music synchronisation safer Cour de cassation, 19 Febuary 2013, no. 11-21310

    Brèves / Droit d'auteur et droits voisins / PLA
    Publié le 25 mai 2013 par Brad Spitz.

    The Franco-Belgian movie Podium, released in 2004, tells the story of a Claude François lookalike who prepares for a contest. Claude François, AKA ‘Cloclo’, was a famous French pop singer of the 60s and 70s. In order to use recordings from the 60s and 70s in the movie, the producer of the film, Fidélité, entered into what is…

  • A mission to promote ‘legal’ dissemination of works on ‘Web 2.0’

    Brèves / PLA / PLA
    Publié le 24 janvier 2009 par Brad Spitz.

    The French government commissioned professor Pierre Sirinelli (university of Paris Sorbonne) to prepare a report on the promotion of cultural works on the web 2.0 while complying with intellectual property rights.  The public uses certain services on the “Web 2.0”, in particular community websites such as YouTube, to illegally broadcast or reproduce audiovisual works and…

  • GIFAM case: Google Adwords Condemned Again For Trademark Infringement

    Brèves / Signes distinctifs / hyperliens
    Publié le 14 février 2008 par Brad Spitz.

    Court of Appeal of Paris (4th Chamber, Section B), 1 February 2008, De Dietrich, Electrolux, and others v. Google France and Google Inc. Google Inc is incorporated in the US and exploits a programme called « Adwords », which displays banner advertisements (‘commercial links’) when a particular search term is entered in the Google search engine. Google France…

  • France: the remuneration for private copying extended to memory cards, USB keys and external hard disks

    Brèves / PLA / PLA
    Publié le 15 octobre 2007 par Brad Spitz.

    Decision of the Committee of Article L. 311-5 IPC, 9 July 2007 In France, the authors and performers of works fixed on phonograms or videograms, and the producers of such phonograms or videograms, are entitled to remuneration for private copying, in application of Article L. 311-1 of the Intellectual Property Code (“IPC”). Article L. 311-4 IPC provides that this remuneration…

  • The French Senate voted a draft bill to implement the Directive on enforcement of IP rights

    Brèves / PLA / PLA
    Publié le 27 septembre 2007 par Brad Spitz.

    On 19 September 2007, the French Senate voted the parliamentary draft bill to fight infringement (‘Projet de loi de lutte contre la contrefaçon’, n° 135, Ameli.senat.fr). This draft bill implements the Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of intellectual property rights. The aim of the draft is in particular to reinforce the body of law to protect…

  • DailyMotion: a  »hosting provider » liable for copyright infringement

    Brèves / PLA / PLA
    Publié le 18 juillet 2007 par Brad Spitz.

    The President of the High Court of First Instance of Paris, in a summary order dated 22 June 2007, held that despite the fact that MySpace is a hosting provider, it acts as a publisher and may therefore be held liable for copyright infringement on its site (see B. Spitz, “ ‘The Buttock’ sues MySpace for…

  • ‘The Buttock’ sues MySpace for copyright infringement

    Brèves / PLA / PLA
    Publié le 11 juillet 2007 par Brad Spitz.

    On June 22, 2007, the President of the High Court of First Instance, in a summary order, held that MySpace acts as a publisher, and condemned the service for copyright infringement (Tribunal de grande instance de Paris, Ordonnance de référé, 22 juin 2007 [legalis.net]). Jean-Yves L., a French comedian known by the name of “Lafesse” (literally…

  • The Olympic games infringement case, and the winner is … Paris

    Brèves / Signes distinctifs / domain name system
    Publié le 15 mai 2007 par Brad Spitz.

    On 14 March 2007, the High Court of First Instance of Paris (‘Tribunal de Grande Instance’) rendered a judgement (1) condemning a Parisian, Mr Gilbert L., for registering, in March and July 2005, the trade marks “Paris 2016”, “Paris 2020”, “Paris 2024” and “Paris 2028”, and the domain names “paris2016.com”, “paris2016.fr”, “paris2020.com”, “paris2020.fr”, etc… London stealing…

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