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These offers are the real answer to piracy

The law on copyright and neighbouring rights (DADVSI) of August 2006, was the subject of a heated debate and the Constitutional Council censured the of device to substitute tickets for counterfeiting offences under the criminal. To avoid incurring prison sentences to Internet users who download illegally works on the Internet, a circular of the keeper of the seals, prepared in consultation with the Ministry of Culture and Communication, will be broadcast in the coming days to prosecutors so they apply progressive penalties. For their part, services of rue de Valois prepared a series of decrees for the application of the law DADVSI, all as an important step in the fight against piracy, at the time where the Internet access providers, film and television professionals fail to agree on a new agreement on the video to the application.

The Minister continues, on the other hand, the defence and promotion of the diversity. He was pleased that the European States have joined the France in the signature of the Charter of Unesco on this subject.

I had made a commitment to find a graduated response which adapts the punishment to the seriousness of the fault. It is now required. A circular will be broadcast in all days by the keeper of the seals to the attorneys that they adapted their closing to the seriousness of the offences. I reiterated here, as I have always said, that there is no place in a prison sentence for a user who downloads a work. The referral to the Constitutional Council by the Socialist deputies had paradoxically restored this possibility. The circular sets now adapted monetary penalties. The prison sentences will be applicable to serious cases: those who make money on the back of Internet users. The objective of the Government and the presidential majority is to accompany and supervise all the technological developments by finding the right balance between the interests of each point: holders of rights and users. To complete the circular, the Ministry of Culture and Communication has prepared a series of decrees. Thus, the decree establishing tickets for the conversion of technological measures of protection was signed in Council of State. In addition, I will pass on in a few days to the Council of State Decree establishing the authority of regulation of technical protection measures. This authority, the mission and the composition was laid down by Parliament, will be installed in February 2007. We are finalising the draft decree requiring Internet access providers sending warning messages to users who download illegally. Finally, I shall refer in the days to come the expert mission on the criminal responsibility of the Subscriber.

On the contrary, the Act was confirmed by the Constitutional Council to 95. The principle of copyright was established as a constitutional value and, in a very demagogic environment, the adoption of the Act was a productive step for authors and users. We will put in place a regulatory authority that will define the practical conditions for the exercise of private copying, and ways to promote interoperability. This device was needed to put an end to legal uncertainty and to promote the development of attractive and many legal download offers. These offers are the real answer to piracy. With regard to the decision of the Constitutional Council to reject the contraventionnel system to return to the criminal regime providing for fines up to 300,000 euros and three years in prison, I said that I wanted to establish the next day this system of differentiation.

I am both confident and voluntary. I have not interfered so far in the professional negotiation continues. I respect those who are negotiating the agreement and I expect the result. If they fail to reach an agreement, it will be the door open to deregulation of the video on demand. No one has interest. If blocking, I semi-annually therefore all players to try out more quickly.

The common thread of our policy is respect for and promotion of cultural diversity. We experienced this week a wonderful time with the ratification by the countries of the Union of the convention of Unesco on the protection and promotion of cultural diversity. With this ratification, the France passes the status of black sheep to scout. Now, our policies to defend concretely and to finance diversity will no longer be delivered in question. On the diversity, I believe in the need to protect the independent actors in the film than in the press, music or publishing. This is why I organize the Department a symposium on the subject, on 10 January. Finally, we have won a major victory, because the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, decided to postpone sine die of a text calling into question the remuneration for private copying.

Protection of the independence of the press through the strengthening of the own funds of enterprises and the modernisation of the distribution. Thus, I carefully studied the evolution of the NMPP and Arnaud Lagardère should come talk me soon. I think that proximity is the key to the press distribution network, and we must think for example at the opening of the points of sale Sunday. In four years, the Government has increased by 50 the budget of the aid to the press. The terms and conditions are to be notified in all days to the professional unions of the written press. I have elsewhere about it met with the leaders of the press to suggest them to create a large common foundation could ventilate the donations readers and sponsors according to their wishes between different newspapers.