[Upd-discuss] be immortal

[Jean-Baptiste Soufron]

>
> You should not ask permission or try to argue with the
> institution, but go ahead and digitize.  If the institution really
> thinks this is wrong, they should have the burden of going through
> the legal system (police and courts), and *there* they should try
> to present their strange ideas of "immortal authors", with the
> risk of appearing as ridiculous in the press.

AH-AH

The Acad=E9mie Francaise is something like 150 very famous and powerful =20=

people that you will always meet again when asking for help on other =20
projects. I don't think we want to get a refusal on some other =20
important project because we treated them like they were criminals once.

I hope this is a case of misunderstanding and that explanations will =20
help to solve the matter.

As a lawyer myself, I KNOW that a bad arranngement is always better =20
than a good trial.

>
> If you -- against all odds -- are called to a (French) court of
> law after having digitized and made available a 70 year old French
> dictionary, your defence should make a reference to the January
> 2005 article in Le Monde by Jean-Noel Jeanneney, and the following
> motion by President Chirac in the European Union.  You will be the
> French national hero, and the institution that called you to court
> will be condemnd by the President of the Republique.

Ah-Ah :D=