Parliament) will begin examining the
The Majors via the SNEP syndicate (Syndicat national des éditeurs phonographiques, easy to translate isn't it ?) are currently confronting right owners (artists) and their representation, the SPEDIDAM (société de perception et de distribution des droits des artistes-Interprètes de la musique et de la danse : society that perceives and distributes rights to artists in music and danse professions).
Those two lobbies defend interests that significantly diverge. The Majors defend their sales, gross income and indirectly their artists which are their work tool. The SPEDIDAM will only defend artists by collecting remunerations that will then distributed to them (private copy right, among other French specific mechanisms ....)
If the Spedidam is in favour of a monthly fee for Internet users that would bring them an official access to protected files on the Internet without they fear law action, the SNEP is opposed to it, arguing that this fee wouldn't compensate for the enormous losses they say illegal downloads cost them.
And this is where the problem is. While some would like fair compensations for artists, some others would like tohave it for their beloved gross income.
Let's go back to DADVSI law. Urgence has been declared for votingt this bill, which rendered the situation quite uncomfortable for everyone, including the politics, as many amendments proposed in every direction were written as fast as the text was in the first place. Actually, this monthly compensation, should it be adopted, would be a great blow to Majors, who expect this law should guaranteee them long term comfortable incomes without that they have to move or be imaginative in front of new distribution channels. This won't prevent this law from turning France a bit more into a legislative and repressive bunker.
A lost word to those who, on the purpose of defending this law, remind that it is only a "transposition from a European directive". This law goes way further than what Europe requires.
