Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Culture and Digital: Why Lescure report divides ... - The Tribune.fr

Many of them had already given their opinions to produce this memory of 719 pages. Defense associations of artists, producers, equipment manufacturers, etc., in short, unions representing all those who in one way or another involved in cultural creation in France or digital, are likely to have been heard by the committee chaired by the former head of Canal Plus Pierre Lescure. After the publication of the 80 proposals it has drawn from nine months of work, the actors of “cultural industry” and the digital world share their reactions. Which are either very favorable for some groups of authors, creators, artists and producers, is openly hostile to the proponents of internet freedom. Here are the main arguments of each other.

  • Private copying and cloud

First stumbling block: the remuneration for private copying. This system, which has been debated for a long time is to puncture some of the price of equipment for the private copying of cultural works (CD, blank DVD, hard drives for example) then redistribute to the beneficiaries. The group oversized, SNSII, SFIB thus opposes the broadening the base of the remuneration for private cloud computing (Proposition 42) copy.

  • Taxing on connected devices
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blocking, size: the famous tax on connected (Proposition 48). Commented abroad, it is also in France. Thus, Afdel, which represents software, is against a tax on tablets, smartphones, etc., because for her, this tax as well as on cloud computing tax return “access to distance “, a new form of use of cultural products created with digital.

Fevad (Federation of Enterprises in distance selling), the SFIB (union industry information technology) and SNSII (National Union of Image and Media) believe that consumers would be “encouraged to buy more their material abroad” . Which would be a loss for both themselves, to the state (less VAT), and the rights holders. First penalized in their eyes: “younger consumers strongly users of new technologies, will again see their purchasing power penalized”

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Meanwhile, La Quadrature du Net, an association for the defense of freedom of expression on the web, refutes the purpose of this tax. “We will tax to help the survival of actors whose inappropriate models are responsible for their difficulties ” and online platforms “that have no ambition as being equivalent (…) the dominant American players, “the organization wrote, very offensive against Lescure report.

  • Risks to freedom of expression

La Quadrature du Net is so offended especially weight given to the Higher Audiovisual would recover missions Hadopi Council. “The Lescure report represents a serious threat to the protection of fundamental rights on the Internet,” the association wrote. She fears for the “net neutrality” if an organization, in this case, the CSA may decide whether a particular actor deemed virtuous receive more state aid if a priority flows allocated as recommended in the report Lescure .

She also believes that such controls by the CSA would be in vain: “In the past, the CSA has demonstrated that it was not even able to monitor the activities of radio and television association, then what about ability to understand and analyze the practices of millions of users. ” La Quadrature du Net further alleges that the Lescure mission to “take over the positions of industry house Recreation” and drew a parallel with the European ACTA agreement on counterfeiting (which, for the record, has been abandoned) and laws Sipa / Sopa United States.

  • Many organizations met

In fact, representatives of authors and creators are generally satisfied. This is at least the case for music SACEM, SACD for broadcasting and entertainment, but also SEVN (Union of digital video editing) and the SPPF (representing independent producers) and the Adami (artists). maintenance device “graduated response” against illegal downloading, especially, is mostly very well received.

few caveats though. The SPPF believes that “it is not with an administrative fine of 60 euros that we will succeed in eradicating acts of domestic counterfeiting “. A small amount also criticized by the Union of record producers (SNEP).

As for Adami, she is wary of translating these proposals into law. “The missions Olivennes-Hoog [who also submitted reports on culture in the digital age Ed], all promising were the final scathing lack of political chess relay essential “, highlights keeps the defense association of artists.

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