CJEU: The Pirate Bay infringes author's rights

The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent online sharing platform which provides to internet users indexed links in order to localise protected works and to download them, without any hosted files on the platform. Thus, the exchange of files is realized directly between the internet users and not through...
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Anne-Solène Gay has been selected by The Best Lawyers™ in France

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We are delighted to inform you that Anne-Solène Gay has just been selected for inclusion in the Eighth Edition of The Best Lawyers™ in...
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Online advertising transparency: the decree has been published at last

The article 131 of law n°2015-990 on digital advertising services was published on 10 February 2017. ...
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The European Commission has published its proposal to reform the e-privacy directive

The 10 January 2017, the European Commission announced its draft regulation on privacy aims to reforming the e-privacy directive...
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BEHRING won the Client Choice Award 2017 for its telecom practice

We are delighted to inform you that BEHRING just won the Client Choice Award 2017 for its practice in telecommunications law.


The official list of selected firms is available on the Client Choice...
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Open data in the health domain

To improve research and innovation in the health domain, the law n°2016-41 dated 26 January 2016 for the modernization of our health system created the national health data system. ...
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Plain packaging: the French administrative supreme court dismisses request brought by tobacco companies

As Australia and the United-Kingdom previously did, France adopted a regulation enforcing plain packaging. Therefore, since 1 January 2017, only plain packages can be stored on the tobacconist shelves.

By its ...
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Personal data: class actions are now possible

The law n°2016-1547 dated 18 November 2016 for the modernization of the justice of the XXIst century has extended the right to class action in many areas and notably regarding personal data processing. ...
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Roaming: The council of the European Union sets out its position on the wholesale roaming tariffs

On 2 December 2016, the Council of the European Union adopted a general guidance on the wholesale roaming tariffs that each telecom operator charges to other telecom operator who uses its mobile network for the purpose of the provision of roaming services....
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The French Supreme Court dispels any doubt: an IP address is personal data

In its decision dated 3 November 2016 , the French Supreme court brings to an end many years of uncertainty by explicitly acknowledging the status of personal data of an IP address. ...
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