UFC-Que Choisir (a French consumer protection organization) has been granted a prohibition on DVD copy protection devices by the Paris Court of Appeal, these devices having been judged to be incompatible with private copying rights.
Arnaud Devillard, 01net., April 22, 2005 at 7:28pm
What consumer protection groups have not yet succeeded in gaining for CDs, they have just obtained for DVDs. On April 22nd, the Paris Court of Appeal prohibited the use of DVD-based copy protection systems. The reason? The incompatibility of this practice with private copying rights.
Two companies, Les Films Alain Sarde and Studio Canal, thus suffered a serious setback after having won the case in the Court of First Instance at the end of April 2004.
UFC-Que Choisir latched onto the case of a consumer who was unable to copy a DVD of Mulholland Drive, a David Lynch film produced by Alain Sarde and Studio Canal, onto a video cassette. This person wanted to watch the film at his mothers, who did not have a DVD player. The strict familial context mandated for the exercise of private copying rights was therefore applicable.
The tribunal also faulted the DVD producers for lack of consumer information. This was not entirely absent but was judged to be insufficient. The label CP for Copy Protected was indeed present on the jacket, but in small characters and not sufficiently explicit.
A worrying judgement for the French Video Producers Association.
Les Films Alain Sarde and Studio Canal have one month to unblock their DVDs. At the same time, Alain Sarde and Universal Pictures Video France must pay 100 euros in damages to the consumer in question. The same two companies, and Studio Canal, must also pay him 150 euros as well as 1,500 euros to the consumer association.
On the other hand, the court refused the request for damages and interest by UFC-Que Choisir against Studio Canal. The consumer association admitted to a legal misstep on its part, having chosen the wrong target for its request. The court also refused to release a judiciary communiqué on the decision.
It goes without saying, however, that UFC-Que Choisir is more than satisfied, as the damages and interest were not the main object of the case. This was rather the acceptance of its argument regarding private copying. This, and the fact that the decision can be applied to other cases as long as the original DVD was purchased legally, says Gaëlle Patetta of the associations legal department.
But for the delegate general of the Video Producers Association, Jean-Yves Mirski, the decision is worrisome. Not having had the time to analyze the decision in detail, the VPA has not yet decided whether to appeal the decision to a higher court (the Court of Cassation). But this is far from out of the question.
In any case, according to Jean-Yves Mirski, this judicial turn of events directly contradicts the European Copyright Directive. The latter permits the use of copy protection systems. This will certainly not make future legal action on this subject any simpler.
why not just use Blu-Ray technolgy and HD-DVD name (silid's idea)
Lets have one technology and an agreed royalty share - an effective buy-out. At least this way it will save millions in marketing in a format war, and both groups get a degree of guarenteed success.
and more importantly will allow me to enjoy the format sooner as i won't have to wait for winner.
"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine month."
"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them had you? I mean like actually telling anybody or anything."
"But the plans were on display..."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a torch."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard."
I was just compiling the list of tracks i actually wanted to buy - I hadn't registered for iTunes before this but when PyMusique came out I had decided that I was going to buy all my tunes this way.
Seems that it will be a little while before I start giving apple any of my money. I believe that apple would have sold bucket loads of music if they had been a little slower off the mark. I was stood in line with cash in my hand.
Maybe they did it for the record labels or was it for the iPod?
the voice on the video is jonathan ross - he presents the bbc's film review programme 'film' and did the voice of the barmaid in the british release of shrek 2
we'll look forward to the comic book heroes that will come out of this:
incommunicado man
unreachable by telephone and still has the ability to walk talk and think
its not off topic and heres how:
the lycos site was makelovenotspam - a spin on john lennons make love not war, john lennon was assasinated in dec 1980, the site was killed in dec 2004 - i didnt realise we lost points for poor hmor/bad taste too
the real point is that by not getting any email you dont get any spam - ok so i can't tell jokes but i do know the usefulness of im (and its limitations)
it ignores the best antispam tool ever - not using email at all and sticking to instant messaging - with my computer always being on and auto accepting file transfers its a bonus
it seems despite concerted efforts of peace (love) loving folk someone is bound to spoil all the fun
john lennon was shot december 8th 1980 - was this anniversary assination a few days early?
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You were probably taught that there is no such thing as an ISDN modem, which is true. That stands for Integrated Services Digital Network.
http://www.actitime.com/ may require a bit of hacking as includes billing methods and stuff - but very good for freelancing.
(Translated from the original French.)
UFC-Que Choisir (a French consumer protection organization) has been granted a prohibition on DVD copy protection devices by the Paris Court of Appeal, these devices having been judged to be incompatible with private copying rights.
Arnaud Devillard, 01net., April 22, 2005 at 7:28pm
What consumer protection groups have not yet succeeded in gaining for CDs, they have just obtained for DVDs. On April 22nd, the Paris Court of Appeal prohibited the use of DVD-based copy protection systems. The reason? The incompatibility of this practice with private copying rights.
Two companies, Les Films Alain Sarde and Studio Canal, thus suffered a serious setback after having won the case in the Court of First Instance at the end of April 2004.
UFC-Que Choisir latched onto the case of a consumer who was unable to copy a DVD of Mulholland Drive, a David Lynch film produced by Alain Sarde and Studio Canal, onto a video cassette. This person wanted to watch the film at his mothers, who did not have a DVD player. The strict familial context mandated for the exercise of private copying rights was therefore applicable.
The tribunal also faulted the DVD producers for lack of consumer information. This was not entirely absent but was judged to be insufficient. The label CP for Copy Protected was indeed present on the jacket, but in small characters and not sufficiently explicit.
A worrying judgement for the French Video Producers Association.
Les Films Alain Sarde and Studio Canal have one month to unblock their DVDs. At the same time, Alain Sarde and Universal Pictures Video France must pay 100 euros in damages to the consumer in question. The same two companies, and Studio Canal, must also pay him 150 euros as well as 1,500 euros to the consumer association.
On the other hand, the court refused the request for damages and interest by UFC-Que Choisir against Studio Canal. The consumer association admitted to a legal misstep on its part, having chosen the wrong target for its request. The court also refused to release a judiciary communiqué on the decision.
It goes without saying, however, that UFC-Que Choisir is more than satisfied, as the damages and interest were not the main object of the case. This was rather the acceptance of its argument regarding private copying. This, and the fact that the decision can be applied to other cases as long as the original DVD was purchased legally, says Gaëlle Patetta of the associations legal department.
But for the delegate general of the Video Producers Association, Jean-Yves Mirski, the decision is worrisome. Not having had the time to analyze the decision in detail, the VPA has not yet decided whether to appeal the decision to a higher court (the Court of Cassation). But this is far from out of the question.
In any case, according to Jean-Yves Mirski, this judicial turn of events directly contradicts the European Copyright Directive. The latter permits the use of copy protection systems. This will certainly not make future legal action on this subject any simpler.
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why not just use Blu-Ray technolgy and HD-DVD name (silid's idea)
Lets have one technology and an agreed royalty share - an effective buy-out. At least this way it will save millions in marketing in a format war, and both groups get a degree of guarenteed success.
and more importantly will allow me to enjoy the format sooner as i won't have to wait for winner.
"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the
..."
last nine month."
"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them,
yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention
to them had you? I mean like actually telling anybody or anything."
"But the plans were on display
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a torch."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked
filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying
Beware of the Leopard."
I was just compiling the list of tracks i actually wanted to buy - I hadn't registered for iTunes before this but when PyMusique came out I had decided that I was going to buy all my tunes this way.
Seems that it will be a little while before I start giving apple any of my money. I believe that apple would have sold bucket loads of music if they had been a little slower off the mark. I was stood in line with cash in my hand.
Maybe they did it for the record labels or was it for the iPod?
hice?
no more running for trains - use your ipaq as a remote control for your very own train set.
and close the doors when you are all the way through
next stop: home
the voice on the video is jonathan ross - he presents the bbc's film review programme 'film' and did the voice of the barmaid in the british release of shrek 2
just some trivia
we'll look forward to the comic book heroes that will come out of this: incommunicado man unreachable by telephone and still has the ability to walk talk and think
its not off topic and heres how: the lycos site was makelovenotspam - a spin on john lennons make love not war, john lennon was assasinated in dec 1980, the site was killed in dec 2004 - i didnt realise we lost points for poor hmor/bad taste too
the real point is that by not getting any email you dont get any spam - ok so i can't tell jokes but i do know the usefulness of im (and its limitations)
thats why its good antispam - cos i have to approve everyone on my list ;)
it ignores the best antispam tool ever - not using email at all and sticking to instant messaging - with my computer always being on and auto accepting file transfers its a bonus
if i was going to admit dowloading music with a fileshare programme i would also say that it has meant i buy more music than i used to.
Try some of my favourite from a self published artist, Janis Ian
Winnie the Pooh was of course the first to achieve this remarkable feat. He did it in the first half of the 19th century.
it seems despite concerted efforts of peace (love) loving folk someone is bound to spoil all the fun john lennon was shot december 8th 1980 - was this anniversary assination a few days early?