Google face à la justice française et belge: Nouvelles décisions en matière de droit d?auteur

• Author: Agnès Lucas-Schloetter
• Position: Dr., Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Informations- und Wirtschaftsrecht, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie.
• Pages: 144-151

2011

Agnès Lucas-Schloetter

144

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Abstract: Internet Service Providers’ liabil-

ity for copyright infringement is a debated issue in

France and Belgium, particularly with respect to in-

termediaries such as providers of hyperlinks and lo-

cation tool services for which the e-commerce di-

rective does not set explicitly any exemption from

liability. Thus, the question arises among other things

whether the safe harbour provisions provided for in

respect of caching and hosting also could apply to

search engines. French and Belgian Courts had re-

cently to decide on this issue in several cases con-

cerning Google’s complementary tools such as Google

Videos, Google Images, Google Suggest and Google

News. This article seeks to give a summary of and to

assess this recent case law.

Google face à la justice française et belge

Nouvelles décisions en matière de droit d’auteur

by Agnès Lucas-Schloetter,

Dr., Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Informations- und Wirtschaftsrecht,

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie.

© 2011 Agnès Lucas-Schloetter

Everybody may disseminate this ar ticle by electr onic means and make it ava ilable for download under the terms a nd

conditions of the Digit al Peer Publishing Licence (DPPL). A copy of the license tex t may be obtained at http://nbn-resolving.

de/urn:nbn:de:00 09-dppl-v3-en8 .

Recommended citatio n: Agnès Lucas-Schloetter, Go ogle face à la justic e française et belge : Nouvelles décisions en mat ière

de droit d’auteur, 2 (2011) JIPITEC 144, para. 1.

Introduction

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

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



    



  





 





A. Google Vidéos

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CA Paris 1 4.01.2011, RG n° 09/ 11729, 09/11737,

09/11739, 09/11779 www.legalis.net

2 







 





 

 



uploaddownload



















I. La qualification juridique du

service Google Vidéos

3    

       

  

  

   



 



hos-

ting provider