France: Domain-Name Registrars Exempt From Trademark Liability
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
A French court recently decided to exclude domain name registrars from liability for trademark infringing domain names registered by their customers in a case involving 13 large French companies against Luxembourg domain name registrar EuroDNS. The Third Chamber of the “Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris” by the judgment on 26 August (in French) confirmed that domain name registrars could claim exemption from liability in the same way as internet service providers under the European Union E-Co
