[Wikimedia-l] In France, sharing copyleft works without paying a fee could become illegal

[Mathieu Stumpf]

This mail follow the reading of an article titled "Hadopi : la mission
Lescure repoussée à avril"[1].

Pierre Lescure, former CEO of Canal+ (a french private television
group), was asked by the French governement to work on the future of the
HADOPI, the french kitchen sink aimed at punishing people who share
non-free/libre digital works through the internet.

And she come with a proposition which would deeply impact us : fordid
free/libre content sharing without charging fee. According to her the
"free sharing risk to harm the developpement of the legal offer"[2]. I
suppose that she purposely use this vocabulary so our movement seems to
act illegaly.

The article finish with statements that work to lobying at the European
level is also in progress.

Who will pretend we don't need to have an active lobying task force to
defend and promote free/libre culture after that? We have enemies: they
hate our willigness to make culture freely accessible to all without
them having means to financialy parasitize the process, and they will do
everything they can to destroy our movement.

You can sign up a petition here :
http://www.avaaz.org/fr/petition/Garder_les_Creative_Commons_libres_et_gratuites/?tIybZab

kind regards,
mathieu

[1] {{fr}}
http://www.linformaticien.com/actualites/id/28186/hadopi-la-mission-lescure-repoussee-a-avril.aspx
[2] la « libre circulation risquerait de freiner le développement de
l’offre légale »