French revolution.(copyright law)

Video Business, May, 2005 by Sweeting, Paul

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: * Both France and Canada impose consumer taxes to compensate copyright owners for economic losses, which relaxes those countries' copyright enforcement standards. * As copyright legislation differs internationally, it becomes increasingly difficult to define and control piracy.

WASHINGTON -- Here's one from the Be Careful What You Wish For files: Last month, an appeals court in France ruled that Alaine Sarde Films, Studio Canal and NBC/Universal had violated the rights of a Paris man, who wanted to dub his DVD of Mulholland Drive onto videocassette for his mother, by placing copy protection on the disc. The court then ordered every other copy-protected DVD of the film--which is to say, all of them--be removed from...

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