Selasa, 07 Maret 2006
French Online Copyright Bill: Circular 2
Businessweek reports that the French Government is trying to force through an amended version of its online copyright nib again. DRMs would become stronger protection, but a panel would oversee the measures to ensure that sure soul role exceptions would locomote maintained. Penalties for network ‘piracy’ would hit betwixt 38 together with 150 euros, rather than 300,000 euros equally originally proposed. Online sellers of music together with films would bring to brand them available inwards formats that tin sack locomote played on all types of devices, rather than but on devices made past times a unmarried manufacturer, such equally an iPod. However, i of the telephone substitution amendments called for past times the Bill’s opponents has been scrapped. The novel draft does non comprise provisions for a ‘global licence’, which would bring enabled users to pay a small-scale fee of a few euros that would bring entitled them to unlimited network downloads of copyright material.
notes that this sure enough gives weaker protection to copyright owners together with the ‘owners’ of DRM-protected plant that the master copy French proposal, but it nonetheless gives rigid protection to them piece level the residue past times placing requirements on them that volition locomote of produce goodness to users.
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