[Upd-discuss] French Parliament Approves Amendment to Legalize Filesharing

[Jean-Baptiste Soufron]

Actually, that's my association, and they are the amendments that I 
drafted :D

Jean-Baptiste Soufron

Michael Hart wrote:
> 
> From: SANS NewsBites, Vol. 7, Num.64
> The SANS Institute
> December 23, 2005
> http://www.sans.org
> 
> 
> 
> French Parliament Approves Amendment to Legalize Filesharing
> (22 December 2005)
> By a narrow margin, French Parliament members voted for an amendment
> that could legalize peer-to-peer downloading of digital content. The
> text of the amendment reads "Authors cannot forbid the reproduction of
> works that are made on any format from an online communications service
> when they are intended to be used privately." The amendment is attached
> to an intellectual property rights bill. French copyright law includes
> a concept called "private copy" under which people are permitted to make
> copies for themselves or for friends. A French court recently held that
> content that has been downloaded for personal use meets the requirements
> of "private copy." L'Association Des Audionautes, "a French group
> that defends people accused of improperly sharing music files", supports a
> royalty tax to accompany the amendment, to be collected from the
> Internet service providers who would likely pass the cost on by
> "levying" a fee on users who conduct a certain amount of downloading.
> 
> http://news.com.com/2102-1030_3-6005860.html?tag=st.util.print
> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=avOoTq8aXkU8&refer=europe# 
> <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=avOoTq8aXkU8&refer=europe#> 
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