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Two years after a landmark treaty to combat workplace violence and harassment was adopted, France has taken an important step towards domesticating the effort.
A new bill on the regulation and protection of access to cultural works in the digital age was presented to France’s Council of Ministers yesterday (8 April).
This text aims to “continue to adapt our law to new uses and (to) protect artists and creators against 21st-century counterfeiting facilitated by streaming, direct downloading or referencing sites”, declared Gabriel Attal, the government spokesman, at the end of the meeting.
A new super-regulator, the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (ARCOM) is to be created from the merger of the Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur Internet (HADOPI) and the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) in order to “step up the fight against pirate sites and to include this action in a broader policy of regulating online content”, according to the Ministry of Culture website.
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France is set to take a fresh approach to online anti-piracy enforcement. A new bill presented to the Council of Ministers this week has several key goals including a pirate site blacklist , mechanisms to deal with mirror sites, and a new system to tackle live sports piracy. A new regulatory body will also be formed by merging Hadopi and the Higher Audiovisual Council.
For more than a decade, French anti-piracy agency Hadopi had made headlines in its quest to reduce illicit sharing on peer-to-peer networks such as BitTorrent.
France became a pioneer of the so-called “graduated response” system back in 2010, with Hadopi chasing down persistent copyright infringers with threats to disconnect them from the Internet. Since then, however, many aspects of the piracy scene have changed and France believes that change is needed to better tackle today’s threats.
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