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The copyright industries had high hopes for France’s three-strikes law. At the World Copyright Summit in Washington last week, speakers had nothing but praise for the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy, who championed the law and railroaded it through the legislature. And they were crushed when, on the second day of the conference, the French Read More …
Well you can forget about that pontential showdown between Paris and Brussels over France’s three-strikes law. The French Constitutional Council on Wednesday struck down the provision allowing the government to order people cut off from the Internet for repeatedly downloading copyrighted material illegally, before the law could even be challenged in the European Court of Justice. Read More …
As often as the Pirate Party of Sweden was condemned at the World Copyright Summit Tuesday, speakers heaped praise on the French government for passing the Creation and Internet law implementing a system of “graduated response” (i.e. “three-strikes”) to policing illegal file-sharing. “I strongly believe that if we’re going to be successful in this fast-paced Read More …
After nearly “starving to death,” Steve Jobs is set to return to Apple, according to the Wall Street Journal this morning. The news comes on the eve of next week’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, where Jobs is expected to make an appearance to introduce a new iPhone, possibly one capable of recording video, according to Read More …
In short, the French law essentially offers content owners a trade: steps to reduce illegal P2P file-trading in exchange for fairly intrusive business regulation. How well they’ll actually like that bargain in the long run remains to be seen. Read More …