Apr 30 2009

French Arts Community Revolts Against French Three Strikes Legislation

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It seems that opposition is mounting against the return of France’s ‘Three Strikes Law’ (Also known as Hadopi). Today, there’s a dramatic increase to condemn the three strikes law from the people rights holders claim to defend – artists.

A blog posting that has already translated the news from French to English details the latest developments. The question they ask is, ‘who gets to control the future?’

“We,” the blog post begins, “the world of science-fiction, writers, translators, illustrators, critics, commentators, essayists, bookshop-owners, bloggers, publishers and collection editors, must express through this text our opposition to the Creation and Internet law.”

That’s quite a list of people who oppose the new law.

“It would be a truism to state that science-fiction concerns itself with the future and that many of its participants have denounced the possible, even probable, pitfalls (dérives) of industrial and technological societies;” the posting continues, “George Orwell’s name comes immediately to one’s lips, but also that of John Brunner, Norman Spinrad, Michel Jeury, J.-G. Ballard, Frederik Pohl, Cyril M. Kornbluth, and many others besides.”

This law, which we are told will protect artists’ rights and copyright in general, seems to us a Trojan horse, deployed to try and establish control over the internet, and is thus a threat to freedom of expression in our country.

Artists, creators, all those cultural actors without whom that word would be emptied of meaning, are being instrumentalised for the benefit of a law which, we must remind everyone, contains measures to filter the net, install spyware on individuals machines, and suspend internet connections without the involvement of a judge on the basis of IP numbers (whose lack of reliability has long been established) collected by private companies, and the extension of measures initially conceived for police anti-terrorist activity to the sharing of files between individuals.

Canadians who are following these developments might be reminded of the political fallout when the Canadian Recording Industry Association and other US arms of the copyright industry existing in Canada tried to claim that restricting copyright laws in Canada is suppose to benefit artists and innovators. In a nutshell, Canadian artists left the CRIA in droves and formed their own coalition to fight restrictive copyright law proposals.

So who is a part of this voice against the French three strikes law? Here’s the list of signatories:

Joseph Altairac, essayiste, Jean-Pierre Andrevon, auteur, critique, essayiste, Andoryss, scénariste (BD), Ayerdhal, auteur, Raphaël Bardas, auteur, Stéphane Beauverger, auteur, Geneviève Beduneau, auteur, blogueuse, Ugo Bellagamba, auteur, essayiste, Jean-Luc Blary, éditeur, Pierre Bordage, auteur, scénariste, Michel Borderie, illustrateur, Bruno B. Bordier, auteur, Charlotte Bousquet, auteur, Georges Bormand, auteur, critique, Alexis Brun, éditeur, David Calvo, auteur,

Thibaud Canuti, auteur, conservateur des bibliothèques, Flora Cappelluti, journaliste, Thierry Cardinet, illustrateur, Philippe Caza, illustrateur, scénariste, Éric Cervos, auteur, Jérôme Charlet, critique, traducteur, libraire, Lucie Chenu, auteur, anthologiste, directrice de collection, Hélène Collon, traductrice, Christophe Cottier, auteur, Magali Couzigou, auteur, lectrice, Thomas Day, auteur, directeur de collection, Jeanne A. Debats, auteur, Philippe Delestaing, bibliothécaire, Nicolas Delsaux, critique, Irène Delse, auteur, Sylvie Denis, auteur, traductrice, anthologiste, essayiste, critique, Thierry Di Rollo, auteur, Sara Doke, auteur, traductrice, essayiste, René-Marc Dolhen, critique, Lea Honorine Dray, photographe, auteur, Jean-Claude Dunyach, auteur, anthologiste, Claude Ecken, auteur, critique, essayiste, scénariste (BD), Philippe Ethuin, essayiste, blogueur, Hélène Fairmarch, auteur, Fabien Fernandez, illustrateur, Jean-Pierre Fontana, auteur, Gilles Francescano, illustrateur, Alexandre Garcia, auteur, traducteur, critique, Didier Gazoufer, auteur, Thomas Geha, auteur, libraire, Laurent Genefort, auteur, essayiste, directeur de collection, Vincent Gessler, auteur, Laurent Gidon, auteur, Olivier Girard, éditeur, rédacteur en chef, Karine Gobled, blogueuse, Michel Grimaud, auteurs, Gudule, auteur, Julien Guerry, libraire, Denis Guiot, directeur de collection, critique, William Guyard, critique, Vladimir Harkonnen, baron, Henscher, auteur, scénariste (BD), Jean-Christophe Hoël, illustrateur, Aurélien Knockaert, webmestre, Wladimir Kokkinopoulos, auteur, Pénélope Labruyère-Snozzi, auteur, éditeur, Marie-Noëlle Lacassin, décoratrice scénographe, Sylvie Lainé, auteur, Patrice Lajoye, anthologiste, Nathalie Legendre, auteur, Olivier Legendre, libraire, Roland Lehoucq, essayiste, Jonas Lenn, auteur, Jocelyn Leroy, lecteur, Marie Renée Lestoquoy, auteur, Yves Letort, libraire, Eric Lesueur, éditeur, photographe, Li-Cam, auteur, Jean-Marc Ligny, auteur, Christine Luce, critique, Marc Madouraud, essayiste, Bernard Majour, bibliothécaire, Manchu, illustrateur, Nadine Manzagol, auteur, scénariste, vidéaste, Patrick Marcel, traducteur, illustrateur, essayiste, Sybille Marchetto, auteur, anthologiste, Coralie Méïsse, libraire, Nathalie Mège, auteur, traductrice, Natacha Ménard, lectrice, Laurent Million, auteur, Yann Minh, illustrateur, créateur de liens, Pascal Mir, auteur, Charles Moreau, essayiste, Ghislain Morel, auteur, documentaliste, Philippe Morin, auteur, critique, bibliothécaire, Loïc Nicolas, libraire, Richard D. Nolane, auteur, essayiste, scénariste (BD), traducteur, anthologiste, Stéphane Nolhart, auteur, Michel Pagel, auteur, traducteur, Thierry Pagès, adjoint du patrimoine, Claire Panier-Alix, auteur, Olivier Paquet, auteur, Roland Pawlak, bouquiniste spécialisé, Pierre Pelot, auteur, Serje Peronnet, blogueur, Audrey Petit, directrice de collection, Olivier Pezigot, bibliothécaire, Jean-Pierre Planque, auteur, Laurent Queyssi, auteur, Hélène Ramdani, éditeur, Mireille Rivalland, éditeur, André-François Ruaud, auteur, éditeur, Simon Sanahujas, auteur, essayiste, François Schnebelen, critique, Nicolas Serra, auteur, Stéphane Servain, dessinateur (BD), Isabelle Seviran, comédienne, lectrice, Claire Sistach, chercheuse d’arts, Nicolas Soffray, auteur, critique, Bertrand Tesson, documentariste, Hervé Thiellement, auteur, critique, Christian Vilà, auteur, essayiste, Christophe Thill, éditeur, Pascal J. Thomas, essayiste, critique, Olivier Tomasini, auteur, Emmanuel Tollé, chroniqueur, Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno, auteur, Jean-Louis Trudel, auteur, Selene Verri, journaliste, Jérôme Vincent, éditeur, webmestre, Herveline Vinchon, libraire, Thierry Virga, auteur, Roland C. Wagner, auteur, traducteur, essayiste, critique, Philippe Ward, auteur, directeur de collection, Christine Webster, compositrice, Laurent Whale, auteur, Martin Winckler, auteur, Joëlle Wintrebert, auteur, scénariste, critique, Nicolas B. Wulf, auteur, Pascal Yung, illustrateur

It’s quite telling when the artistic community revolts against measures that are purported to be helping the artists.

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  1. ConfusedMime

    Laws like this are arnt made to help they are made to control people. damn well better start revolting,seems to me that its just the begging of this madness.

  2. soulxtc

    its about time artists reallized that copyright laws in many ways harm them too, benefitng mainly international entertainment conglomerates who usually own the content rights and are thus the most ardent proponents of draconian copyright laws in order to protect their “property.”

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