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LVMH Group had charged eBay with brand counterfeiting for allowing keywords for some LVMH brands to appear in advertisements. A French court has found eBay guilty and fined the online auction site €80,000 (US$118,000). In addition to the fine, the tribunal forbids eBay from continuing the activity and will impose a €1,000 fine for each infringement.

Edmond Connor, a US lawyer of California law firm Connor, Fletcher and Williams, has claimed that copyright is infringed when the California Courts hand over submissions to a commercial publisher. The lawyer says that the US courts` behavior undermines the hundreds of hours of work put into submissions.