DADVSI law: author's right threatened with loss of balance

[MJ Ray]

Veuillez trouver ci-joint un traduction en anglais d'un info
sur la projet de loi DADVSI. J'espere que qqn le veut.

[en]
Another JFDI translation, this time of yesterday's announcement
by FFII.fr http://www.ffii.fr/dadvsi - for the purpose of news
reporting, so you might be able to ignore the non-free CC licence
used by FFII.fr a bit. (If you want to be free, don't use CC. (yet?))

Errors and omissions excepted:


DADVSI law: author's rights threatened with loss of balance

Thursday 1st December 2005, by Gerald Sedrati-Dinet (gibus)

The National Assembly should decide about the proposed "Author's
Right and Neighbouring Rights in the Information Society"
(DADVSI) law by urgent process in this month of December 2005.
Before the threat of this law changes the balance of author's
rights, the FFII calls its supporters to support the EUCD.info
initiative to contact their representatives and to sign the
petition launched by EUCD.info

The FFII has always promoted the balance allowed by copyright
to defend the rights both of authors and of software users.

The proposed DADVSI law to translate the EUCD European
directive (2001/29/CE) profoundly reopens the debate on
this balance:

  If, tomorrow, a judge declares that judicial protection of
  technical measures covers the methods of processing data
  necessary for security of function of a technical measure,
  and in deducing that, everyone divulging such a method is a
  criminal, and that therefore the publication of a source
  code doing that is a crime, he should sanction punitively
  according to the instruction of the law-maker, and if,
  in good time, this jurisprudence becomes the norm, so some
  information essential to interoperability and mathematical
  demonstrations will be protected by secrecy, the ideas will not
  be in free circulation any more, free association will be lost,
  freedom of expression mutilated and free software prohibited.

  Source: EUCD.info

The collection of arguments demonstrating the outcomes of
this proposed law can be consulted on the web site of the
EUCD.info initiative.

The FFII therefore encourages its supporters to support the
call of EUCD.info to defend their rights and freedoms,
notably by alterting representatives and signing this petition.

Pieter Hintiens, president of the FFII, comments:

  In our eyes, the use of copyright to protect author's rights
  is a key point in an open market, but this proposed law is a
  abuse of the law on author's rights. This biased
  interpretation of author's rights creates a dangerous
  precedent and is incompatible with a modern and working
  open market.


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