This may be of interest:
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-651865,36-840113@51-837044,0.html
Google is apparently (I say apparently, because journalists are
notoriously incompetent at law) sued for copyright violation and
business parasitism, for allowing copies of some movie on its
videos.google.com site.
Their defense: they're a mere hosting provider, not an editor or
publisher; they do not select their contents and they are thus bound to
act only when told about a violation, not preemptively. (See LCEN law.)