Intellectual Property Liability of Consumers, Facilitators and Intermediaries: The Position in France

Intellectual Property Liability of Consumers, Facilitators and Intermediaries:The Position in France
Sylvie Nérisson

ISBN 978-90-411-4126-2
2012 Kluwer Law International BV, The Netherlands

French liability principles of civil, media and IP law could have been properly applied to the intermediaries dealing on the internet. However, the French legislature followed the trend initiated by the US-American safe-harbour provision in the DMCA of 1998,even before the EU-law made this unavoidable in the Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (‘E-commerce directive’)