Cedric Manara is copyright counsel at Google (France) since July 2013. Before joining Google, Cédric Manara, PhD, was a Professor of Law at EDHEC (featured by the Financial Times among the top business schools in Europe). His primary teaching and research interests concern intellectual property in the digital age and before, and electronic business law. From 2000 to 2013, Cédric was head columnist for Dalloz, a prominent francophone law review, where he regularly published comments on internet related cases. He has written numerous articles in French and foreign law reviews, and is the author of four books. Cédric Manara has served as counsel to prominent firms and governmental agencies in his field of expertise. He is also a domain dispute resolution panelist (Arbitration Center for .eu Disputes, Prague, Czech Republic, Belgian Centre for Mediation and Arbitration, Brussels, Belgium, and Regional Center for Arbitration, Kuala-Lupur, Malaysia). He is listed in the EU Directory of Academic Experts in the field of Consumer Policy and Consumer Affairs. In 2004 he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for International Law and Public Policy, Temple University Beasley School of Law (Philadelphia, PA, USA), in 2005 an invited researcher at the Institute of Intellectual Property (Tokyo, Japan), in 2009 a visiting professor at Università degli Studi di Salerno (Italy), in Spring 2010 a visiting professor at LUISS (Rome), and an affilate researcher at the IPR University Center (Finland) from August 2010 to April 2011. In 2010, he received a Google Research Award.
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Ten years ! It took no less than ten years to decide whether it is lawful for a manufacturer to prevent online sales to its distributors. Compared to the speed at which businesses evolve on the internet, that is as if the conduct subject to scrutiny lasted half a century… In February 2002, the (...)
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Facts Is free an anticompetitive behavior ? Bottin Cartographes, a French company which offers solutions to firms which want to integrate maps in their websites, realized that it was losing clients to Google. Its clients, which used to pay for the display on their pages of their location and (...)
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Facts Google offers several online services such as a search tool, Google News, Google Maps, or Gmail, many of which are available for free. Google Inc. operates in Italy, partly through its subsidiary Google Italy S.r.l. In Italy, in July 2009, the Italian Federation of Newspaper and (...)
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Summary The well known low-cost airline company RyanAir wishes to have control over online sales of its tickets. It has launched several lawsuits in Europe (in France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, Swiss) to protect its websites from “screen-scraping”. Screen-scraping consists in the (...)
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A French firm discovered that results returned by major search tools pointed to excerpts of a website criticizing it. It sued the search tools, claiming they were disparaging. A French court of appeals finds that this neither constitutes unfair competition nor gives rise to liability. Facts (...)
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Price comparison is crucial for competition. Several websites offer comparison tools to internet users. After a French firm complained one of these websites provided biased comparisons, the Versailles Court of Appeals had its say on how such websites should operate. Facts Kelkoo is a website (...)
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Copyright laws of most European Member States provide that the price of storage products such as tapes or discs include a copyright levy, to compensate authors whose work will be copied on these media. The amount of this copyright levy differing from one country to another, resellers of such (...)
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When a trademark coexistence agreement is silent on the question of the electronic use of the sign at stake, can one of the parties register a domain name which includes this sign ? This question was raised for the first time before the Paris Court of Appeals, in a dispute over the name , (...)
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Google has been sued in France by several household appliance manufacturers and their professional union, and fined for using said manufacturers’ trademarks in its keywords advertising tool. Among thirty decisions issued by French courts against the search engine over its AdWords service, (...)
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A German and a Swiss firm were competing on the online tyres market in France. They were using very close domain names. One applied the VAT rate of the country of origin, the other one the VAT rate applicable in France. A French court of appeals finds that this constitutes unfair competition. (...)
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Insatisfaits de certains classements opérés par les moteurs de recherche, divers acteurs demandent l’examen des pratiques de ces derniers, brandissant à cette occasion l’expression de « search neutrality ». Cet article a pour objet d’étudier cette notion nouvelle. Il parvient à la conclusion (...)
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Les acteurs du marché de la musique en ligne l’ont abordé en exploitant les possibilités nouvelles offertes par les mesures techniques de protection, et en refusant l’interopérabilité. L’approche juridique de ce nouveau marché amène à constater que le verrouillage des ?uvres, au-delà des (...)
