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

[Orionist]

Hi Mathieu,

I think we need to wait to read the final, original text of the Lescure
proposals before jumping to conclusions. If you go to the original
"Libération" article [1] that reported on the Lescure mission, you'll find
that the context [2] in which the CC is mentioned does not make any sense.
Why only non-commercial licenses are singled out? And why would it affect
VOD (video on demand) in particular, or even at all?

I think the intent of the report was to say that non-commercial sharing,
for example by torrents instead of selling pirated DVDs, should be treated
as commercial because it still affects legal offers like VOD. The bit about
CC licenses seems irrelevant to me and probably constitutes a gross
misunderstanding of what CC is and of copyright in general.

I'd suggest contacting the Libération journalist who wrote the article and
asking them if the mention of CC was spelled out in the Lescure proposals.
Because it might be the journalist's own conjecture. In fact, journalists
misunderstanding copyright is a very common occurrence. It's better to make
sure these reports are 100% accurate before we get all riled up.

Regards,
--
Orionist

[1]
http://www.liberation.fr/medias/2013/02/20/lescure-les-positions-du-missionnaire_883309

[2] *"En parallèle, pas de dépénalisation des échanges non marchands au
programme, mais la volonté de «valoriser» les licences libres du type
Creative Commons. La mission Lescure estime que laisser les œuvres circuler
librement (ce qu’elles font déjà…) risquerait de freiner le développement
de l’offre légale, en particulier la VOD."*

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On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Mathieu Stumpf <
psychoslave at culture-libre.org> wrote:

> 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 »
>
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