Showing posts with label nicholas sarkozy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nicholas sarkozy. Show all posts
12 May 2012

What Does The Election Of France's New President Mean For European Copyright?

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Whatever you might have thought of his policies, Nicolas Sarkozy probably had more impact on European copyright policy than any other EU ...
22 February 2012

Twitter Suspends Four Accounts Critical of Sarkozy: Is This What He Meant By 'Civilizing' The Net?

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Nicolas Sarkozy, who hopes to be re-elected as French President this year, seems to have little love for the Internet. At best, he regard...
08 February 2012

We Don't Have A 'Wild West' Internet Now, But We Will If SOPA Or Similar Is Passed

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Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France, has the sad distinction of being in the vanguard when it comes to really bad ideas concerning th...
24 November 2011

Sarkozy Worried About The Internet 'Stealing Audience Share' From 'Regulated' TV Services

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Earlier this week Techdirt reported on the surprisingly forthright statements of Neelie Kroes concerning the failure of the copyright syst...
23 June 2009

Sarkozy Will Go "All the Way" for Monopolies

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Curious stuff coming out of France: “By defending copyright I do not just defend artistic creation, I also defend my idea of a free society...
11 May 2009

Has HADOPI Driven the French Insane?

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One of the things I have been unable to understand is why the French, well known for their love of liberté, égalité, fraternité and all tha...
03 April 2009

HADOPI Law Passed - by 12 Votes to 4

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What a travesty of democracy: Alors que le vote n'était pas prévu avant la semaine prochaine, les quelques députés présents à l'hém...
12 January 2009

Keeping the Czechs in Check

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Hm, looks like bad news from the Czech Republic: Die tschechische EU-Ratspräsidentschaft hat sich für die kommenden sechs Monate auch auf d...
27 December 2008

Go China?

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There's nothing like a mature, balanced view of the world: 2009, Go China! Lead: Snowstorm, freely falling down to earth, like western v...
21 November 2008

"Three Strikes and You're Out" Struck Down

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Wow. I was convinced that the meeting of EU culture ministers yesterday was going to end badly; I was wrong - and I take my virtual hat of...
14 November 2008

Share This: The Internet is a Right

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“They order, said I, this matter better in France.” So wrote Laurence Sterne in his 1768 book A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy...
03 November 2008

Whatever Happened to La Liberté?

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What on earth have the French got against the Internet? First the "three strikes and you're out", and now this : The Soviet In...
05 October 2008

What a Nasty Piece of Work is...

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...that Sarkozy chap : Nicolas Sarkozy announced yesterday that he faxed on Friday evening to the President of the Commission (news piece in...
12 February 2008

Three Strikes and the Media Industry is Out

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So the music and film industries want to follow Sarko's daft plan: People who illegally download films and music will be cut off from t...
04 February 2008

Is Sarko Uxorious?

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You can't help wondering whether Sarkozy's chanteuse missus had something to do with this one : Taking a position contrary to that o...
06 December 2007

Reneging on Gowers

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When the Gowers review of copyright in the UK came out I was ambivalent : there was some good things, but also areas that were potentially p...