Friday, February 10, 2006

French Court Dismisses Criminal Copyright Uploading Case; Holds No Evidence of Intent; No Presumption of Bad Faith

A French court has held that uploading with a peer to peer file sharing
program does not give rise to any presumption of "bad faith", and dismissed
a criminal copyright case brought against a peer to peer file sharer for
uploading, on the ground that the prosecution had failed to prove intent.
See http://www.audionautes.net/pages/PDF/audionautestgiparis.pdf.

The lawyer for the winning defendant was our friend Olivier Hugot of
HugotAvocat, in Paris, France, featured in our Directory of Lawyers Defending RIAA Lawsuits.

Keywords: copyright download upload peer to peer p2p file sharing filesharing music movies indie label freeculture creative commons pop/rock

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