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France set to scrap Hadopi

The French cultural and communications ministry was urged on Monday to scrap Hadopi, the government agency responsible for a three-strike anti-piracy system. Businessman Pierre Lescure, who has led a consultation on updating French cultural policy since last year, recommended transferring Hadopi’s powers to the Higher Audiovisual Council (CSA), France’s broadcasting regulator. The three-strike system should […]

Google cuts deal with French publishers

WorldIPReview.com, 5 février 2013 Google has created a €60 million ‘digital publishing innovation’ fund for French newspapers, ending a six-month dispute over the use of their copyrighted material online. The fund is part of a deal Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt and French president François Hollande signed on Friday. The deal settles a dispute between the […]

Ongoing counseling to an online provider of sponsored and contextual links: verification of conformity with the “Loi Sapin”; drafting of contracts with advertisers and media; negotiation

Ongoing counseling to a press group and its advertising department for the purchase of media and advertising departments: audit and drafting of agreements for public management, and assignment of intellectual property rights

Representation in defense of an advertising agency summoned by a photographer for infringement of its copyrights and unfair competion through an advertising campaign

Assistance to an advertising agency in an advertising campaign regarding gambling

Audit of trademarks, domain names and image rights for an investment fund purchasing a franchise company in the hairdressing business: drafting of assignment contracts

Audit of trademarks and domain names for an investment fund in the purchase of an international distribution company conducting its business via franchised stores and on the internet

Establishment of a contractual organization for transfer of a trademark by the member of a computer service company and, then, the licensing thereof to its various partners and franchisees

Counselling to a real estate company in a proceeding against one of its former partners in order to recover domain names and to sanction trademarks infrigements and acts of unfair competition