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EUCD implementation in France

By Nicola Lucchi on

France is discussing national legislation that would implement the European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD). The French National Assembly has adopted on March 21 the DADVSI bill (Droits d'Auteur et Droits Voisins dans la Société de l'Information). The bill implements the controversial European directive EUCD and it will have to be approved from the Senate.
One of the most interesting aspects of the bill concerns the forced interoperability between the different anticopy systems. That means that DRMs producers must permit customers to use legitimate content in different platform. In other words, the technological protection measures cannot represent an obstacle to the free use of the work or the protected content (“les mesures techniques ne doivent pas avoir pour effet d'empêcher l'interopérabilité”). The current absence of interoperability between the various technological solutions offered by manufacturers and their lack of interest in devising shared open standards constitutes, in fact, a significant restraint on the free circulation of creative works because consumers are unable to decide autonomously where to buy, and they often must choose only content that fit their devices.

Le text de la loi [Frech text]
More info at: http://eucd.info/

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