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This is one of series of country reports prepared for the Council of Europe in 2015. Other countries' reports, and responses from national governments, are available here. [The report for Luxembourg is also available in French on the site.] The studies undertake to present the laws and, in so far as information is easily available, the practices concerning the filtering, blocking and takedown of illegal content on the internet.

recalling that the liability for any infringement committed by way of a media lies on the contributor, if known, or by default, on the editor, or by default, on the diffuser, in accordance with article 21 of the law of 8 June 2004, as amended, on the freedom of expression in the media. This cascading principle established a successive and isolated liability between the authors and co-authors of press-related offences and excludes the traditional principles of the civil law regarding tortious liability. In the present case, the author of the offence was identified and therefore, by application of article 21 of the law of 8 June 2004, as amended, on the freedom of expression in the media, his liability only should be retained

providing that the President of the District Court ("Tribunal d'arrondissement") may issue an interim injunction, upon request of a person authorised to file an action for counterfeiting, against an intermediary whose services are used by a third party to infringe an intellectual property right designed to: prevent any imminent infringement to an intellectual property right; prohibit, on a temporary basis, the pursuit of the alleged infringements to an intellectual property right; subordinate the pursuit of the alleged infringements to the constitution of guarantees designed to ensure the indemnification of the requesting party; or order the seizure of the goods suspected to infringe an intellectual property right in order to prevent their introduction or their movement within the commercial channels (art 27)

providing that the civil or criminal liability for any infringement committed by way of a media lies on the contributor, if known, or by default, on the editor, or by default, on the diffuser (art 21). The notion of diffuser covers the intermediary providers as defined by articles 60, 61 and 62 of the law of 14 August 2000, as amended, on E-commerce (art 3(2)). Such infringements concerned, for example, infringements to privacy (art 14(1)), to the reputation or honor (art 16) or to the protection of minors (art 18)