A French court on Wednesday rejected a claim from the cosmetics company L’Oréal that the online auctioneer eBay was profiting from sales of counterfeit perfumes. The court said that eBay was making a reasonable effort to keep fake goods off its site.
— From French Court Clears eBay in Selling Fake Goods at the New York Times.
Is this good news for those of us who purchase off the ‘bay? The legal stuff always confuses me…
In the US, it makes no difference whatsoever. In France, it presumably means eBay can go on selling L’Oreal brand perfumes…