French anti European Copy Right Directive initiative - help out!

December 23, 2002

VSO-Software mailed us if we could also give some attention to a French initiative that fights against the upcoming European Copyright Directive. This European version of the DCMA will restrict the use of digital media a lot.

It will probably end the right to make a backup for personal use or to bypass copy protections. Therefor it's important that everyone who thinks this law should not pass makes this known to the persons that can stop it. Unfortunately the site is only in French, so we encourage our French speaking visitors to take a look at the site.

Badly Translated with Babelfish:

What let us can be done?

To produce and propose an alternate preliminary draft of law.

To promote near the responsible people.

To enter the circle of consultation ( in progress ).

How to help?

To make a gift (deductible from the taxes) in order to pay lawyers whose tasks will be to analyze the situation and to write legislative proposals.

To act while speaking about the problem, by collecting information, while explaining to all, by publishing information, by allertant the elected officials and the press... ( how to act ).

More information on this initiative can be found here. A translated version from French to English can be found here.

Source: Eucd.info