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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 2013The 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…
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Brèves / PLA / PLA
Publié le 24 janvier 2009The 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…
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Brèves / Signes distinctifs / hyperliens
Publié le 14 février 2008Court 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…
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Brèves / PLA / PLA
Publié le 15 octobre 2007Decision 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…
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Brèves / PLA / PLA
Publié le 27 septembre 2007On 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…
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Brèves / PLA / PLA
Publié le 18 juillet 2007The 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…
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Brèves / PLA / PLA
Publié le 11 juillet 2007On 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…
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Brèves / Signes distinctifs / domain name system
Publié le 15 mai 2007On 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…
