Jerome Dominguez a écrit :
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:19:41AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
On 30-Nov-2005, Jerome Dominguez wrote:
SNEP and SCPP tell Free Software authors: "You shall change your licenses." SACEM add: "You shall stop publishing free software," and warn they are ready "to sue free software authors who will keep on publishing source code" should the "VU/SACEM/BSA/FA Contents Department"[1] bill pass in the Parliament.
URL: http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html
What action can be taken by French citizens? By other people? How soon must action be taken?
I'm afraid that only French citizens can do something. The EUCD.INFO initiative proposes some actions : http://www.eucd.info/agir
The EUCD.INFO initiative was launched by FSF France.
It seems that we are the guinea pigs of the new european laws. In this case, DADVSI is quite like IPRED2: Mme Fourtou, rapporteur of the Framework Decision to the JURI meeting, is the wife of Vivendi Universal's CEO (author of the amendement Vivendi Universal/SACEM/BSA in the french Parliament). Everybody's concerned.
Since her Framework Decision was rejected by JURI "on the basis of the Court's judgment of 13 September 2005 (Case C‑176/03 Commission v Council) where the Court clarifies the distribution of powers between the first and third pillars as regards provisions of criminal law", IPRED2 could be voted in a "trilogs" procedure with only one reading by the EU Parliament (otherwise, we have 2 two chances instead of 3 in the co-decision process).
The Commission will present another proposal for a Directive by end of January 2006. We have just a little more time to act.
M.