Comments on: Political Hypocrisy: French President Sued for Copyright Infringement

By: French Citizen Beats Government to Trademarking HADOPI

French Citizen Beats Government to Trademarking HADOPI — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:49:30 +0000

[...] Veeckman said that if his trademark is upheld in court, he would sue the government for damages – a symbolic Euro. No doubt this was a reference to last years fiasco when French governing party – who pushed for this law in the first place – was sued by artist…. [...]

By: British Government (and Opposition) Busted for Copyright Infringement

British Government (and Opposition) Busted for Copyright Infringement — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:25:04 +0000

[...] Last year, while trying to pass a three strikes law in France, the French governing party was busted for copyright infringement. Not only this, but an agency involved in the three strikes law in France was also caught up in a [...]

By: French Pres’ Party Caught Infringing Copyright Once Again

French Pres’ Party Caught Infringing Copyright Once Again — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:24:12 +0000

[...] are dealing with acts of counterfeiting, an infringement of intellectual property,” said the band’s lawyer, Isabelle Wekstein, at the [...]

By: zwhat

zwhat — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah.

By: DetunizedGravity

DetunizedGravity — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Even though I do approve of the “Political hypocrisy” title that the story is globally truthful and that it would be lying to tell that I like our current president (I’m French)…

The fact that this article mixes up our president with its political party still makes it potentially crappy journalism. It is not a “Sarkozy case”. There are things that one might call “Sarkozy cases” but this is not one of them. AFAIK his name does not appear anywhere in the proceedings.

I’m glad no French paper that I know of would choose to report the issue in the same way you did because it would only have provided the UMP party with the perfect way to distract people from the real issue at hand. It’s sad on the other hand that the current depression ripped this story of any kind of the required momentum that it would require to make the front page.

By: DrewWilson

DrewWilson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

While I am happy to make any technical correction when a minor detail isn’t exactly 100% correct your assertion that this article has destroyed any “momentum” is completely inaccurate. I wrote this article and it was posted in several high-profile places thus giving international exposure and as you put it giving it an amazing amount of momentum. As you have put it yourself the important details are quite accurate. To my knowledge it’s extremely difficult to separate a political leader from the affiliated political party in many democracies – which is why such a technical detail is so minor to begin with.

Edit: I have made two corrections in the article. I hope you find this article’s accuracy satisfactory.