French Supreme Court bans copying of legally owned DVD

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: [IP] French Supreme Court bans copying of legally owned DVD
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:05:50 +0100
From: Laurent GUERBY <laurent () guerby net>
To: dave () farber net
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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/



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