Violazione del Copyright: Sarkozy offre 1 euro, si accordano per 30.000

U.S. rockers MGMT win piracy row with Sarkozy's party | Lifestyle | Reuters.

PARIS (Reuters Life!) - "No time to think of consequences/Take only what you need from it," sings American psychedelic indie rock band MGMT in its popular anthem "Kids." This was exactly what French President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party did when it used the song without the band's permission.
Now the ruling UMP party, which faced the threat of a lawsuit, has agreed to pay a financial compensation to the band, MGMT's French lawyer said on Tuesday. Asked if the settlement fee amounted to 30,000 euros ($39,050), a sum cited by France Info radio, Isabelle Wekstein told Reuters by phone: "There has been an agreement of that order." .... It had initially offered the band one euro in symbolic damages for copyright infringement.

Intanto in Francia ripropongono in parlamento il "tre botte e via", che si aspettano di approvare il 17 maggio
France Reintroduces Three-Strikes Bill; Britain Rules Out the Idea | Digital Media Wire.

Paris - A proposal that would see repeat file-swappers lose their Internet connections has been reintroduced in the French parliament, while the "three-strikes" concept has been ruled out by the government minister in charge of intellectual property in the U.K., according to published reports. The French law, which is backed by President Nicolas Sarkozy, suffered an unexpected defeat at the hands of the Socialist Party there when it first came up for a vote. Sarkozy has said that he expects the law to be adopted by May 14, Billboard reports.

mentre in Europa
Alessandro Longo » Ban dell’utente p2p? Sì, ma solo per vie ordinarie.

Oggi hanno raggiunto un compromesso a Bruxelles, tra industria del copyright e difensori delle libertà degli utenti e di conseguenza è cambiato il testo della bozza del nuovo pacchetto Telecoms (che dovrebbe valere dal 2010). In sostanza: sì alla disconnessione degli utenti internet se fanno peer to peer, ma solo per ordine della magistratura e per opera della polizia (contro la cui decisione gli utenti possono fare ricorso). L’industria voleva che venisse fanno direttamente, per ordine del governo e attraverso i provider, saltando la magistratura. I difensori degli utenti volevano che l’accesso internet fosse considerato diritto universale dell’uomo e quindi intoccabile.