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  • From: Joachim Losehand <joachim AT losehand.at>
  • To: Paul Keller <pk AT kl.nl>
  • Cc: CC Europe <cc-europe AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [CC-Europe] new compulsory levy for image search in france?
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 20:04:37 +0100 (CET)

Ouioui,

cf.
<http://www.nextinpact.com/news/96500-loi-creation-deputes-lr-veulent-taxer-referencement-d-images-par-moteurs.htm>
et <http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/amendements/3068/AN/260.pdf>

J.

> Paul Keller <pk AT kl.nl> hat am 28. Januar 2016 um 19:50 geschrieben:
>
>
> hi all, continuing with my current fixation on all things french i was
> wondering if someone from France could provide some additional information
> on
> this amendement to the new french freedom of panorama exception that i was
> made aware of earlier today:
>
> http://www.senat.fr/amendements/commissions/2015-2016/15/Amdt_COM-182.html
>
> key passage (french original):
>
> > « Art. L. 136-1. – I. – La publication d'une œuvre d'art plastique,
> > graphique ou photographique par un service de communication en ligne
> > emporte
> > cession du droit de reproduction et du droit de représentation de cette
> > œuvre par des services de moteur de recherche et de référencement, au
> > profit
> > d'une ou plusieurs sociétés régies par le titre II du livre III de la
> > présente partie et agréées à cet effet par le ministre chargé de la
> > culture.
> >
> > « II. – Les sociétés agréées sont seules habilitées à conclure toute
> > convention avec les éditeurs des services de moteur de recherche et de
> > référencement aux fins d'autoriser leur reproduction et leur
> > représentation
> > par ces services et de percevoir les rémunérations correspondantes fixées
> > selon les modalités prévues à l'article L. 136-3. Les conventions conclues
> > avec ces éditeurs prévoient les modalités selon lesquelles ils
> > s'acquittent
> > de leurs obligations de fournir aux sociétés agréées le relevé des
> > exploitations des œuvres et toutes informations nécessaires à la
> > répartition
> > des sommes perçues aux auteurs ou leurs ayants droit.
>
>
> (my unofficial) english translation here:
>
> > The publication of a photographic, visual or artistic work by a an
> > information society service transfers the reproduction and making
> > available
> > rights in those works by a indexing or search engines services, to a one
> > or
> > more collecting societies as regulated under [section X of this Code].
> >
> > These collecting societies are exclusively authorised to conclude
> > agreements
> > with publishers of indexing and search engine services, for the purposes
> > of
> > allowing their reproduction and making available by said services and of
> > collecting remuneration under the conditions laid out under article L
> > 136-3.
> > The agreements concluded with such publishers include the conditions
> > according to which they comply with their obligation to provide collecting
> > societies with the reporting on the use of the of the works, and all the
> > information necessary to share the sums collected to authors and
> > right-holders".
>
> the way i read this this seems to create a compulsory levy for the use of
> photograpic, visual or artistic works by publishers of indexing and search
> engine services. The most obvious use case would be something a service like
> google image serach, but i think the language is broad enough to apply to
> things like Europeana and possibly even Wikimedia commons.
>
> Given that this is a compulsory licensing arrangement it appears to me that
> this would also apply to CC licensed photographic, visual or artistic works.
> Is there anyone on this list who can take a closer look at this and tell me
> if
> this is indeed the case? Also does anybody know if this is still under
> consideration or if this has already been adopted?
>
> thanks, Paul
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