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Aziz Ridouan, president of the Association of Audionautes approves the two provisions voted by the French Parliament to authorize content downloading on Internet.
Following these provisions, the French Code of Intellectual Property shall now feature an article L-122-5 stating that :
« Authors cannot forbid the reproductions of Works that are made on any format from an online communication service when they are intented to be used privately and when they do not imply commercial means directly or indirectly. »
These provisions were proposed by the Association of Audionautes and the Artist-Public Alliance. They were initially contrary to the project defended by the French Government, but they were voted by 31 votes against 30.
This Law proposal is not definitive yet, but Jean-Baptiste Soufron, Legal Counsel of the Association of Audionautes approves this vote and wants to point out that France is the first country in the world to propose the legalization of P2P downloading.
The Association of Audionautes is a non-for-profit organization founded by French high-school and college students in order to react to the abusive threats of the musical industry. They now help more than 80 people to organize their defense, and they regroup more than 6000 members including students, lawyers, artists, etc.
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