International Law

The silver lining in Dailymotion's copyright cloud (TGI Paris 13 Juillet 2007)

Posted on March 15, 2008
ABSTRACT*: Dailymotion, a French video-sharing website, recently received bad news on the judicial front. This summer, it was sentenced by a Paris court to pay ?23,001 ($33,400) in damages for the copyright infringement of the movie ?Joyeux Noël?, an unauthorized copy of which had been made available on the website by an internet user...

French prankster wins copyright battle against MySpace

Posted on November 19, 2007
In June, a Paris court ordered MySpace to pay almost €60,000 ($88,000) in damages to a French comedian for breach of his copyrights and personality rights. The court considered that MySpace, acting as a publisher, was liable for copyright infringement as unauthorized copies of the comedian’s work had been posted on the web page of a MySpace member...

French prankster Lafesse wins copyright battle against MySpace (TGI Paris 22 juin 2007)

Posted on November 19, 2007
In June, a Paris court ordered MySpace to pay almost ?60,000 ($88,000) in damages to a French comedian for breach of his copyrights and personality rights. The court considered that MySpace, acting as a publisher, was liable for copyright infringement as unauthorized copies of the comedian?s work had been posted on the web page of a MySpace member...

Sony BMG and Deezer sign online music broadcasting deal

Posted on October 10, 2007
Deezer.com, a free on-demand music streaming website has signed a deal with Sony BMG , the second largest record label in the world, to allow the broadcasting of 165,000 titles from artists such as Justin Timberlake or Alicia Keys. This deal represents an important milestone both in digital music distribution and in Deezer’s difficult journey towards legality...

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Sony BMG and Deezer sign online music broadcasting deal

Posted on October 10, 2007
Deezer.com, a free on-demand music streaming website has signed a deal with Sony BMG , the second largest record label in the world, to allow the broadcasting of 165,000 titles from artists such as Justin Timberlake or Alicia Keys. This deal represents an important milestone both in digital music distribution and in Deezer?s difficult journey towards legality...

French broadcaster hails ‘Heroes’ VOD success in eroding piracy

Posted on October 05, 2007
TF1, the French broadcaster of the hit TV show ‘Heroes’ has welcomed the success of its video-on-demand (VOD) offer which allows French internet users to watch episodes of the second season of Heroes just 24 hours after their original US broadcast...

French ISP offers free access to Universal's music

Posted on August 27, 2007
A deal between Universal Music and Neuf-Cegetel, a French Internet Service Provider (ISP), allows the ISP’s customers to have unlimited access to songs in the Universal catalogue. At no extra-cost, Neuf’s broadband customers can listen, download and transfer all songs from one of the musical genres included in the label’s catalogue...

French police detain teen over Harry Potter translation

Posted on August 09, 2007
A French high-school student has been detained for questioning, and then released by the Police after he posted an unauthorized translation of the latest Harry Potter book on the Internet. Though he could, in theory, face stiff sentences for copyright infringement, the publisher has not yet pressed charges and seems unlikely to do so, given the non-commercial nature of the fan’s endeavor...

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