Court Prohibits DVD Copy Protection
I figured if I can’t keep myself from blogging while “vacationing” here in Paris, I could at least choose a topic with a suitably French theme. Luckily something highly appropriate cropped up: the recent decision of a French tribunal that DVD copy protection schemes violate the fair-use copying rights guaranteed by law. So far this seems to have been reported only in a French technology journal. So while I’m sure that it will have filtered into the English-language press by tomorrow, for those who can’t wait I threw together a translation of the original article in English.
I’m quite sure this won’t be the end of the story, especially considering that the ruling apparently contradicts the recent European Copyright Directive. If I understood the article correctly, this directive is still being “transposed” (i.e. adapted) to the French legal code.
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