A 2005 retrospective

A 2005 retrospective

Posted Dec 22, 2005 20:00 UTC (Thu) by ortalo (subscriber, #4654)
Parent article: A 2005 retrospective

Yet another prediction that I would not have dared to make personnally (this is also an interesting information btw):
The French parliament has just (yesterday), pretty surprisingly and against the governement advice, adopted two amendments (153 and 154) to its "DRM-and-the-like" law proposal.
(NB: The French parliament was to discuss and vote yesterday a law transposing a european directive with respect to copyright and authorship, especially in the music and media area.)
And these amendments, available here for amendment 153 and here for amendment 154 do allow some exceptions to the copyright protection.
These exceptions include specifically the right to make private personal copies of a legally purchased media and the right to transport these copies via the Internet.

Certainly, even for a french guy, this really is a surprise given our current parliament political orientation. Furthermore, I am not a lawyer and anyone reading these lines should double check everything.
Otherwise, this really sounds to me like: Joyeux Noel.

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