[Upd-discuss] French Parliament Approves Amendment to LegalizeFilesharing

[Jean-Baptiste Soufron]

Thank you :)

And just for the record, I finished first of my prom at Paris Law School 
this December : I am now not only a PhD candidate, but also a registered 
lawyer in Paris (even when I don't feel like working for a law firm).

And I am now trying to develop a new project to allow people from 
everywhere in the world to understand what are their exact copyright / 
public domain rules so that they can more easily contribute to 
wikipedia, commons, and other wmf projects.

This is planned to be both a research project and practical one :-)

But about the Law, be cautious : the law is now postponed and it is not 
clear about what it will become.

Seth Johnson wrote:
> Good for you, Jean-Baptiste!
> 
> You seriously did a service to humanity there.
> 
> You kicked serious ass.
> 
> 
> Seth
> 
> 
> Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:
>> 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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