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   Anonymous Coward, Mar 29th, 2011 @ 10:54pm

   
   

   France has moral rights too, doesn't it?

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   Anonymous Coward, Mar 29th, 2011 @ 11:11pm

   
   

   I'm not so sure this would be fair use in the U.S. Not that it shouldn't be.

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   Anonymous Coward, Mar 29th, 2011 @ 11:12pm

   
   

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   Apparently not. Otherwise, they would abolish copy'right'.

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   Anonymous Coward, Mar 30th, 2011 @ 12:32am

   
   

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   There is only one country in the world that doesn't, the U.S.A..
   
   Now if you want to see the more stringent moral rights in the world you should look at Asia in specific South Korea and Japan, you may think this is bad, but when you realize that punishment from infringement rarely goes up the tens of thousands of dollars and the focus is on terminating any harm and not punishment of the infringer you realize that the laws can be ridiculous but people can live with it.
   
   On the other hand when people start focusing on punishing others things will get ugly.

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   Anonymous Coward, Mar 30th, 2011 @ 1:04am

   
   

   cat a list

   It takes this kind of abuse to get peoples attention. No one realizes how insane the system of IP has become. It needs the disinfectant of sunlight.

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   Anonymous Coward, Mar 30th, 2011 @ 1:19am

   
   

   Makes sense to me. No one should be able to profit from someone else's hard work by copying it, the public demand for new content from popular artists is irrelevant.

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   Mike Masnick (profile), Mar 30th, 2011 @ 1:25am

   
   

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   France has moral rights too, doesn't it?
   
   
   It does, but I don't see how there's a moral rights issue here. Moral rights tend to have to do with making sure someone is properly named and such...

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   Mike Masnick (profile), Mar 30th, 2011 @ 1:26am

   
   

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   Makes sense to me. No one should be able to profit from someone else's hard work by copying it, the public demand for new content from popular artists is irrelevant
   
   Huh? This isn't a replacement. This is a news report about the song, including a snippet.

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   Planespotter (profile), Mar 30th, 2011 @ 2:20am

   
   

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   You either didn't read the article properly or don't grasp the concept of fair use.

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    Capitalist Lion Tamer (profile), Mar 30th, 2011 @ 2:25am

    
    

    It's a shame no one could solicit an opinion from Charles Trenet, what with him being dead and all. It is his song, after all.
    
    And this is why people hate politicians even more than they hate lawsuit-happy IP protectionists. Even their family members feel they can throw their weight around if things aren't going their way.

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    Anonymous Coward, Mar 30th, 2011 @ 3:39am

    
    

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    Really?
    
    The unions want to talk to you about all those services that you using to profit on the backs of the hard labor of others, without paying those workers their dues.

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    Anonymous Coward, Mar 30th, 2011 @ 3:41am

    
    

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    I also believe that America was build on people being able to profit from others hard work, did you pay the workers of your house for their hard work? are you paying them still for the profiting from their work?

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    The Devil's Coachman (profile), Mar 30th, 2011 @ 5:59am

    
    

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    Anything that is contrary to Mike's viewpoint makes sense to you. That is all you worry about. If Mike is for it, you're against it. You're really nothing more than a contrarian, and nobody actually cares what you think, other than to stop by here periodically and make fun of you for it.

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    V, Mar 30th, 2011 @ 7:37am

    
    

    But...

    mais que dire des enfants?!
    
    (translation: But what about the children?!)

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    Anonymous Coward, Mar 30th, 2011 @ 8:18am

    
    

    counterfeit?

    Counterfeit implies that it was being passed off as something it was not. Assuming there wasn't some caption that labeled the clip as something it wasn't, I don't see how this is a counterfeit.
    
    Does counterfeit means something different in France?

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    Shon Gale (profile), Mar 30th, 2011 @ 8:19am

    
    

    Later with France the Socalist Republic

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    Anonymous Coward, Mar 30th, 2011 @ 8:25am

    
    

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    Actually, fair use normally would not apply to private material. As this song (or version) was never released, there is little hope of fair use on it. At best, a news program might be able to claim newsworthiness, but even then, it would be a bit of a stretch to use privately owned material in a public broadcast without permission.

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    Ole Husgaard, Mar 30th, 2011 @ 11:21am

    
    

    Just like some English-speaking people incorrectly use the word "theft" when referring to copyright infringement, some French-speaking people seem to like the word "counterfeiting" to just as incorrectly refer to copyright infringement. The reason, of course, is that some people want to have non-commercial file sharing punished the same was as for example the sale of fake medicines that can cost lives.
    
    French copyright law does not have the concept of "fair use". But there is an explicit right of citation in the law. This means that people can cite a part of a copyrighted work without permission, if they properly attribute the creators of the work. I think this is the case here.
    
    French copyright law also has moral rights. And it looks to me like Carla Bruni is trying this approach by now claiming that the recording was a draft version and that citing from it violates her moral rights.

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