[Upd-discuss] French Judge refuses to shut down internet connections of P2P users

[Jean-Baptiste Soufron]

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>    With Berne and the EU - how varying can France be in it's adoption 
> of copyright infringement policy from other member nations? It seems 
> what is deemed infringement must likely be similar with the contracts 
> mentioned - but I don't know if that extends to the enforcement and 
> punishment aspects?


Well berne and the EU only organize a set of very minimum requirements 
like the principle of copyright in itself. They don't really impose 
rules to signatories.

As an example, the EU directive on DRM from march 2001 has been 
implemented in completely different ways all over Europe : download is 
now stated as legal in the Spanish Penal Code, nothing is mentionned in 
the German Act, it's forbidden in Greece (or in Austria?)...

Without even mentionning that interpretation of Bern and EU directives 
is left to national Courts and thus it can vary from one country to 
another.

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> Cheers!
>
> Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> it always looks like everything is happening in the US or in 
>> english-speaking countries... when so much is happening everywhere 
>> else...
>>
>> So I decided to translate a piece of my blog for you since it 
>> involves one of the top-executive of Vivendu-Universal. Plus, I 
>> really think it's a good decision taken by this French Judge :
>>
>> http://soufron.free.fr/soufron-spip/article.php3?id_article=78
>>
>> Enjoy and do not hesitate to correct my english if you want.
>>
>> Jean-Baptiste Soufron
>> http://soufron.free.fr
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