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French Justice In A California Court: Copyright, Picasso And The “Astreinte”

boatThe peoples of France and the United States tend to view things very differently — Jerry Lewis, berets and processed cheese food, to name just a few.  Law sometimes transcends this divide – for example, French and American intellectual property lawyers can communicate based on shared fundamental understandings about copyright, trademarks and patents, even as our cultural differences persist. In other instances, however, a shared understanding of legal concepts by lawyers of different jurisdictions is much more difficult. … More