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Article: AUTHORS' RIGHTS : PARIS PUTS GRADUATED RESPONSE' ON AUDIOVISUAL COUNCIL'S AGENDA.
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- December 2, 2009
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Highly controversial in the context of the revision of EU telecoms rules (telecoms package), the protection of authors' rights online came up again in the conclusions adopted by the Audiovisual Council, on 20 November in Brussels, recommending in particular the much-criticised graduated response' system that France wants to create against piracy.
The conclusions cite "among the concrete solutions" against illegal downloading "the implementation of non-legal, educational and progressive mechanisms". Criticised by defenders of consumers' and individual liberties and rejected by the majority of the European Parliament, this mechanism sets out cutting the internet ...