[A2k] Copyright Holders Acknowledge Losing Battle For Public Consciousness At World Copyright Summit

[Miles Teg]

This is a great victory for France. However, will similar measures
continue in Free Trade Area Agreements like the EPAs where "concessions"
are extracted from much weaker (and at a disadvantage) developing
countries... or will it continue to be good rules for rich countries and
"profiteering" and exploitative rules for poor countries?

Claude Almansi wrote:
> Thanks for your posts, Robin, and also J=C3=A9r=C3=A9mie (see "Hadopi is =
dead:
> "three strikes" buried by highest court."
> <http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/a2k/2009-June/004581.html>).
>
> Re:
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Robin Gross<robin@ipjustice.org> wrote:
>
>> Smiles,
>> Robin
>>
>> http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/06/11/copyright-holders-
>> acknowledge-losing-battle-for-public-consciousness-at-world-copyright-
>> summit/
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> French Three-Strikes Strikeout
>>
>> Rights holders were dealt a blow Wednesday when a French court struck
>> down the country=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Cthree strikes=E2=80=9D law, saying t=
hat =E2=80=9Cfree access=E2=80=9D to
>> the internet is a human right and cannot be withheld without a
>> judge=E2=80=99s order, and that the new system presumes guilt, instead o=
f
>> innocence. It is anticipated that the government will introduce a new
>> version of the bill with the same =E2=80=9Cgraduated response=E2=80=9D a=
pproach, but
>> it may transfer some of the administrative powers to a court.
>>
>> =E2=80=9DThis isn=E2=80=99t over yet in France by a long shot,=E2=80=9D =
said Shira
>> Perlmutter, executive vice president of global legal policy for IFPI
>> - as well as a name said to be under possible consideration for
>> President Obama=E2=80=99s IP =E2=80=9Ctsar.=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CIn general=
, the French approach was a
>> very important step in just recognising we need cooperation by ISPs.=E2=
=80=9D
>> (...)
>>
>
> Le Monde's print edition dated  June 12 2009 (actually June 11) has a
> very (voluntarily?) funny article about the announcement of the French
> court at the summit, entitled "Internet va-t-il r=C3=A9duire =C3=A0 n=C3=
=A9ant le
> droit d'auteur?" ("Will the internet annihilate author's right?" -
> haven't found it online yet):
>
> " ' I am deadly ashamed ("morte de honte")', says Christiane
> Ramonbordes, general director of Adagp, the society of authors in
> graphic and plastic arts. 'We have been ridiculed' ( "On est
> ridiculis=C3=A9s")."
>  What about "On s'est ridiculis=C3=A9s" (we have ridiculed ourselves)?
>
> Best
>
> Claude
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