-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [IP] French Supreme Court bans copying of legally owned DVD Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:05:50 +0100 From: Laurent GUERBY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [email protected] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Even as the European DMCA, called EUCD, is not transposed yet in France (second debate planned in early march, see http://eucd.info/), the french supreme court ("cour de cassation") just landed a strongly worded opinion reversing the appeal court decision to make illegal the prevention by technological measures of private copying of legally owned digital content. Judgment in french available here: http://www.courdecassation.fr/agenda/agenda_new/I-2006-02-28-0515824-0516002-Decision-civ1.htm The private copying levy is a few hundred millions euros a year in France, but it looks like the corresponding right to copy no longer exists since the EUCD vote according to the court. And of course, french citizens no longer have the right to watch a legally owned DVD under Linux. Looks like in a few days, given the current government & IP lobbies law proposal, french citizen won't even have the right to talk about software in the area without facing jail... Laurent GUERBY Paris, FRANCE http://guerby.org/blog/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as [email protected] To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
