The French Parliament voted last night to allow free sharing of music and movies on the Internet, setting up a conflict with both the French government and with media companies. If the amendment survives, France would be the first country to legalize so called peer-to-peer downloading, said Jean-Baptiste Soufron, legal counsel to the Association of Audionautes, a French group that defends people accused of improperly sharing music files.
The law would be a blow to media companies that increasingly use the courts worldwide to sue people for downloading or sharing music and movie files. Entertainment companies such as Walt Disney Co., Viacom Inc. and News Corp.'s Fox say free downloading of unauthorized copies of TV shows and movies before they are released on DVD will cost them $5 billion in revenue this year.
``The deputies used this vote to show their independence from the government, but they don't know what they are doing,'' Nicolas Seydoux, chief executive of French cinema company Gaumont SA, said in an interview on France Inter radio. ``We are not trying to ban anything, just to make sure the work of others isn't stolen.''
The government can overturn the amendment, either by re- opening debate or if the Senate votes it down when the bill moves to the upper house. French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres has asked that parliament re-open debate on the amendment today, Agence France Presse reported.
The amendment, which is attached to a bill on intellectual property rights, states that ``authors cannot forbid the reproduction of works that are made on any format from an online communications service when they are intended to be used privately'' and not for commercial use.
Alta: Apr 26, 2005 Mensajes: 2776 Ubicación: Barcelona
Publicado: 27-12-2005 | 13:47
Igualmente, aquí en España el intercambio de ficheros (aún) no está penado. Lo que supone una infracción del artículo 270 del Código Penal es tanto el comercio de cd´s y dvd´s piratas (el famoso top manta), y la compra de esos cds (al saber q son piratas e ilegales).
Lo que es la descarga de archivos no es punible, a pesar de las "amenazas" de la SGAE y de que todos los que tenemos programas para bajar archivos (emule, soulseek...) formamos parte de una lista elaborada por la policía.
Que el Parlamento francés haya aprobado esa normativa, corrobora que en ese país no sea delito el intercambio de archivos.
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