French Supreme Court: Important rulings for intermediary liability
Publié initialement dans la newsletter EDRi-gram. On 12 July 2012 the French Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation) issued four important and somewhat contradictory rulings regarding the role of online service providers in policing online copyright infringements. In the first case, SNEP vs. Google France, the Court’s decision could lead the search engine to censor its autocomplete feature which automatically suggests commonly-used terms associated with the queries submitted by users. The French phonographic industry lobby (SNEP) had sued Google for providing the suggestions “Torrent”, “Megaupload » and “Rapidshare” when users typed the… Lire la suite »French Supreme Court: Important rulings for intermediary liability