In an interview with Paris-based daily newspaper La Liberation published Friday, Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo, said that, while the company's French subsidiary would respect French law, he doubted that French courts could make a U.S. company block French users from accessing the content of its U.S. servers.
The implication is that to avoid breaking French law, websites around the world where such items are sold must prevent French users from gaining access and geolocation technology allows them to do just that.
Under French law the court's decision falls short of a formal charge, our correspondent says.
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Under French law, prosecutors will now have to decide whether to launch a criminal inquiry.
These have been recognised by French law as legally binding since March this year.
Under French law, if no candidate wins an absolute majority, the two top candidates faceoff.
French law, as almost everywhere else in the rich world, does not allow for euthanasia.
French law already allows civil unions for homosexual couples, but denies them full tax and inheritance rights.
The campaigners say French law also favours the rich, since landowners with more than 20 hectares are exempted.
Its basic elements reflect the influence of both the German and French law.
Under French law, suspects may not be shown handcuffed, nor their faces exposed.
Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin insists that French law specifies that marriage can only be between a man and a woman.
In French law, this meant he realised certain capital gains (though he had not sold the shares concerned) and must pay tax.
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Anti-racism group SOS Racisme said it was illegal because French law did not allow the compilation of personal data without the individual's consent.
LaCie will initiate the information and consultation process required by its employee representative council in relation to the contemplated transaction, in accordance with French law.
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Juveniles anyone, in French law, under 18 now commit nearly a fifth of all crime (including 40% of burglaries and 18% of rapes), double the proportion 25 years ago.
"We have combined elements of American damages with French law, and this has led to very significant compensation for the loss of someone close, " Baum told n-tv.
The court found that the tax treatment on stock options, private retirement benefits and bearer bonds were all violations of the law under the French tax system.
Under French law, authorities may hold terrorism suspects for a maximum of 96 hours without pressing charges, meaning the detention of those arrested Friday will expire on Tuesday.
Ms Cestino and Ms Hasslauer have lived together 15 years, are raising four children together, and already benefit from a French law recognising their partnership, but they cannot marry.
The other day the FBI, in conjunction with Dutch and French law enforcement, seized control of three website domain that have been involved in the distribution of pirated Android apps.
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French law explicitly outlaws it, and denies second wives the right to join their husbands in France (though if a second wife dies, her children are sometimes allowed to join their French-based father).
They are worried that France's government, under pressure from the European Court of Justice, may repeal a French law obliging owners of small pieces of land to let field-sportsmen on to their property.
One of the loudest critics of the French law, which first came before parliament in 2006, was Hrant Dink, an Armenian newspaper owner who was murdered in Istanbul by an ultranationalist youth in 2007.
In this one, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected attempts by a French businessman to enforce his rights to the trade name for Chartreuse liquor in the U.S. even though he owned it under French law.
French law puts explicit limits on it.
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You may recall that a similar French law forced Apple to limit the volume level on its iPod family to 100dB, and at that time, it decided to make the limit apply to all units shipped within Europe.
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More recently, most of them felt still more aggrieved when the European Court of Human Rights declared that a French law offended against privacy and property rights by forcing small (but not big) landowners to let shooters on their land.
Due to a French law making it illegal to exhibit or sell objects with racist overtones, a Paris court last month ordered U.S.-based Yahoo to report back on July 24 exactly how the company plans to block access to the Nazi material from French Internet users.
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