French copyright law ‘uncertainties’
p2pnet.net News:- Will French citizens have to wait until after next spring’s presidential elections before they find out how the country’s new copyright laws will shake out?
The country is still deeply mired in the entertainment cartel created copyright morass and its, “controversial copyright law aimed at fighting Internet piracy is a ‘work in progress’ and cannot be the final solution for the struggling industry,” a French music lobby group says, according to Reuters.
“This is a work in progress, there are a lot of uncertainties and unanswered questions around it (France’s copyright law),” it has Bernard Miyet, head of the music copyright management society Sacem, saying. “We have not yet found the real solutions to the problem (related to online content remuneration).”
The story goes on, “In an effort to transpose the European Union’s Copyright Directive into its own body of law, France adopted a law in August that introduced a new concept – interoperability between different music-playing platforms.”
Put another way, Apple would be forced to open its DRM consumer control mechanism and, “provide competitors with software codes … to convert songs from one digital playing format to another,” says Reuters.
According to Miyet, “It is not clear yet whether we will have the decrees (regarding the law’s implementation) before the presidential elections.”
The law isn’t finished, “and a close examination of it will have to be done again,” he predicted, says the story, adding that he says a balance needs to be found, “between helping artists make a name for themselves through free Internet file-sharing” and, “obtaining remuneration for their work”.
“The problem is how can artists retain control over their work once it is freely available,” Miyet said, states Reuters.
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Also See:
Reuters – French music lobby says copyright law is unfinished, December 19, 2005
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December 22nd, 2006 at 3:54 pm
“The problem is how can artists retain control over their work once it is freely available,”
Obviouslt Mr. Miyet asked the wrong question.
This is the right question:
“The problem is how can artists be compensated for their work once it is freely available.”
If you start out with the wrong question you wll never get the right answer.
Mr. Miyet, head of the so called “copyright management society Sacem” (and who really works for the music publishers, the primary exploiter of the artists along with the record companies) has a vested interest in the answer and that is why he did not ask the right question, as the right question embarrases the “keep-all-the-money” music publishers.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com