Christelle Coslin

Firm/Organization: Hogan Lovells

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Hogan Lovells represents Twitter in first ever “fake news” case

By Christelle Coslin, Pauline Faron & Marie Voutsas

June 13, 2019

London, Paris, 4 June 2019 – Hogan Lovells recently represented Twitter in the first case brought under the new French ‘fake news’ law. On 17 May a claim brought by Ms. Marie-Pierre Vieu (a European Deputy running for reelection) and Mr. Pierre Ouzoulias (a French Senator), against Hogan Lovells client Twitter France SAS, was dismissed by the Paris Civil Court. The claim aimed to get the removal of a tweet posted by Mr. Christophe Castaner…

Global Media and Communications Watch

Hosting providers of websites are not as such data controllers and only incur limited liability, French Court of Appeal says

By Christelle Coslin

April 5, 2019

In a decision dated March 1st, 2019, the Paris Court of Appeal reminded that specific conditions must be met for hosting providers to be held liable in case of unlawful content. The French court also ruled that hosting providers are not data controllers per se and, as such, are not subject to obligations under the Data Protection Act. In this case, the claimant is a lawyer who alleges that a company – whose main activity…

Global Media and Communications Watch

French initiatives: “class action” or “collective action” for personal data protection?

By Christine Gateau, Winston Maxwell, Christelle Coslin & Pauline Faron

August 14, 2018

Both the French Council of State in its annual report for 2014 as well as the National Digital Council (hereinafter, “CNNum”) in its “Digital Ambition” report voiced support for the creation of an action enabling consumers to collectively seek redress for violations of regulations protecting personal data. However, their recommendations are different regarding the goal of this action. After some hesitation and numerous debates, the collective action for data protection finally became a reality in…

Focus on Regulation

Hogan Lovells leads conversation with roundtable on the French duty of vigilance and corporate civil liability for human rights

By Christelle Coslin, Julianne Hughes-Jennett & Margaux Renard

May 23, 2018

On 17 May 2018, an unprecedented round table took place to discuss the “French duty of vigilance and civil liability in human rights matters” at our Paris office. Alongside Julianne Hughes-Jennett, London Partner and Head of our Business and Human Rights group, this event gathered Horatia Muir Watt – Professor of international private law and comparative law at Sciences Po – and Gerald Pachoud – former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General’s special representative…

Focus on Regulation

One year after the enactment of French law, is your company vigilant enough to avoid civil liability?

By Christelle Coslin

March 29, 2018

On 27 March 2017, France went one step further than other countries by adopting “hard” law on human rights with the very broad Law on the “duty of vigilance of the parent companies and main contractor companies”. This statute is now into force and the first “vigilance plans” are being published as companies file their financial statements, which vigilance plans are now part of, where applicable. At the time of these publications, it is worth…

Global Media and Communications Watch

First views from the CJEU on how to build a consumer collective action in the Schrems v Facebook Ireland case: The concept of “consumer” and lack of jurisdiction of the consumer’s home court over assigned claims

By Christine Gateau, Christelle Coslin, Pauline Faron, Dr. Matthias Schweiger, Michael Shreeve & Valerie Kenyon

February 7, 2018

The famous case brought by Maximilian Schrems against Facebook Ireland in Austria, aimed to become an international and large data protection class action, led on 25 January 2018 to a ruling from the CJEU on two main points: A consumer’s right to have a claim heard in his or her home court under European law does not extend so as to confer jurisdiction on that same court where claims have been assigned by other consumers…

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Hogan Lovells Paris TMT seminar on “Digital Single Market: strength through union?”

By Christelle Coslin

June 28, 2016

Hogan Lovells’ Paris office recently hosted a seminar on the Digital Single Market, the strategy launched a year ago by the European Commission, in the context of the French Digital Republic Bill which is currently being discussed before the French Parliament. In May 2015, the European Commission launched its Digital Single Market strategy to make the EU single market fit for the digital age, as one of its top priorities. To do so, European policy-makers…

Global Media and Communications Watch

DSM Watch: European Commission working document identifies characteristics of online platforms

By Christelle Coslin

June 23, 2016

On 25 May 2016, the European Commission published a “Commission Staff Working Document” together with its “Communication on Online Platforms and the Digital Single Market: Opportunities and Challenges for Europe ” (see here our previous post on this Communication). The starting point of the Staff Working Document is that online platforms cover a wide range of activities, but share several common features: (i) the capacity to facilitate and extract value from…

Global Media and Communications Watch

DSM Watch: European Commission presents targeted approach to online platforms

By Christelle Coslin & Christine Gateau

June 9, 2016

On 25 May 2016, the European Commission published a long-awaited Communication on “Online Platforms and the Digital Single Market: Opportunities and Challenges for Europe“, together with a Staff Working Document. Both documents rely on the results of the public consultation on online platforms carried out between September 2015 and January 2016. The main ideas developed in the Communication are similar to the ones mentioned in the draft released by the website statewatch.org mid-April (see http://www.hlmediacomms.com/2016/04/28/dsm-watch-online-platforms-commission-communication-to-be-the-next-major-milestone-on-the-road-to-a-digital-single-market/…

Focus on Regulation

Global Media and Communications Quarterly

By Trey Hanbury, Winston Maxwell, Michele Farquhar, Ari Fitzgerald, Mark Brennan, William Elder, A.J. Burton, Andrew McGinty, Richard Jadot, Alex Bebe Epale, Penny Thornton, Christelle Coslin, Mark Parsons, Maggie Shen & Clarice Kan

February 26, 2014

The latest edition of our Global Media and Communications Quarterly issue focuses on the sheer breadth of human ingenuity – a characteristic that’s good for lawyers and businesses alike. Topics in this newsletter include: Preparing for the swarm: Ensuring our airwaves and airspace can accommodate transformational drone technology Wireless Medical Body Area Networks: Opportunity in a changing regulatory landscape European court to examine blocking measures; French court blocks “allostreaming” Leading U.S. court of appeals strikes …

Christelle Coslin

Hogan Lovells represents Twitter in first ever “fake news” case

Hosting providers of websites are not as such data controllers and only incur limited liability, French Court of Appeal says

French initiatives: “class action” or “collective action” for personal data protection?

Hogan Lovells leads conversation with roundtable on the French duty of vigilance and corporate civil liability for human rights

One year after the enactment of French law, is your company vigilant enough to avoid civil liability?

First views from the CJEU on how to build a consumer collective action in the Schrems v Facebook Ireland case: The concept of “consumer” and lack of jurisdiction of the consumer’s home court over assigned claims

Hogan Lovells Paris TMT seminar on “Digital Single Market: strength through union?”

DSM Watch: European Commission working document identifies characteristics of online platforms

DSM Watch: European Commission presents targeted approach to online platforms

Global Media and Communications Quarterly

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