Consumer P2P use legal in France at Digital Music - The Future

A Paris district court ruled P2P downloading and sharing to be legal as long as its for personal use. France has compulsory licensing in the form of a levy on blank CDs and tapes to pay copyright holders and is considering a similar fee for P2P users. The ruling aligns France with Canada, and opposite countries like the U.S., U.K. and Australia where consumer P2P use in conjunction with copyrighted content [...] Read More


Happy New Year from the French ... at Digital Music - The Future

... for music lovers, that is. France May Allow P2P Downloads. The French Parliament voted to allow free downloads of copyright content from the Internet for private use. The translated legislation - "Authors cannot forbid the reproductions of works that are made on any format from an online communication service when they are intended to be used privately and when they do not imply commercial means directly or indirectly." Consumer digital rights in [...] Read More


France Stands Up For The People at Digital Music - The Future

A French court ruled in favor of personal privacy over record label intrusion. The court said that copyright holders that conduct unrestrained searches on p2p networks engage in illegal data invasion. P2P networks cannot be monitored to secure evidence for copyright infringement lawsuits. The ruling may lead to lawsuits against the record labels. "We do not know how many families or individuals were monitored before they chose who to prosecute," said [...] Read More


Consumer P2P use legal in France at P2P File Sharing

A Paris district court ruled P2P downloading and sharing to be legal as long as its for personal use. france has compulsory licensing in the form of a levy on blank CDs and tapes to pay copyright holders and is considering a similar fee for P2P users. The ruling aligns France with Canada, and opposite countries like the U.S., U.K. and Australia where consumer P2P use in conjunction with copyrighted content [...] Read More


France dilutes plans for iTunes law at The Gadgets Weblog

Currently, only iPods and computers can play music from the world's leading legal music download site iTunes. Similarly, music from other sites can often not be played on iPods. The law sought to change that and force all shops and devices to work together. This meant allowing users to crack digital rights management systems and forcing Apple to inter-operate with other music platforms and sales operations. French lawmakers have [...] Read More