Veuillez trouver ci-joint un traduction en anglais d'un info sur la projet de loi DADVSI. J'espere que qqn le veut.
[en] Another JFDI translation, this time of yesterday's announcement by FFII.fr http://www.ffii.fr/dadvsi - for the purpose of news reporting, so you might be able to ignore the non-free CC licence used by FFII.fr a bit. (If you want to be free, don't use CC. (yet?))
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DADVSI law: author's rights threatened with loss of balance
Thursday 1st December 2005, by Gerald Sedrati-Dinet (gibus)
The National Assembly should decide about the proposed "Author's Right and Neighbouring Rights in the Information Society" (DADVSI) law by urgent process in this month of December 2005. Before the threat of this law changes the balance of author's rights, the FFII calls its supporters to support the EUCD.info initiative to contact their representatives and to sign the petition launched by EUCD.info
The FFII has always promoted the balance allowed by copyright to defend the rights both of authors and of software users.
The proposed DADVSI law to translate the EUCD European directive (2001/29/CE) profoundly reopens the debate on this balance:
If, tomorrow, a judge declares that judicial protection of technical measures covers the methods of processing data necessary for security of function of a technical measure, and in deducing that, everyone divulging such a method is a criminal, and that therefore the publication of a source code doing that is a crime, he should sanction punitively according to the instruction of the law-maker, and if, in good time, this jurisprudence becomes the norm, so some information essential to interoperability and mathematical demonstrations will be protected by secrecy, the ideas will not be in free circulation any more, free association will be lost, freedom of expression mutilated and free software prohibited.
Source: EUCD.info
The collection of arguments demonstrating the outcomes of this proposed law can be consulted on the web site of the EUCD.info initiative.
The FFII therefore encourages its supporters to support the call of EUCD.info to defend their rights and freedoms, notably by alterting representatives and signing this petition.
Pieter Hintiens, president of the FFII, comments:
In our eyes, the use of copyright to protect author's rights is a key point in an open market, but this proposed law is a abuse of the law on author's rights. This biased interpretation of author's rights creates a dangerous precedent and is incompatible with a modern and working open market.
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Hope that helps,