Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Christian Paul: "The repeal of Hadopi does not mean the abandonment of copyright"

In a cat in the world. en, the head of the laboratory of ideas of the Socialist Party describes the digital program of training. Guest: The various laws that the current majority has taken on the sensitive issue of the adaptation of copyright to new consumption patterns show a strengthening of private rights in intellectual property.

Do you think this is the response to this challenge? What is your position on this? Paul Christian: For ten years, in fact, transfer of digital culture has led to a string of repressive laws. Each time the target was the same: can not find an economic model, the actors were trying to preserve the system, by security laws, traditional models.

For the future, we must distinguish between two worlds coexist. On the one hand, market, business models, where rights are tailored to protect authors and artists, and each of the actors who produce or publish them. In this universe, there are real questions that are asked. How to share the value thus created? How to ensure that the distribution powerhouses like Apple or Google are led, by law and by constraints in financing the creation and fairly compensate artists? A second is that of world trade, non-profit, near the market.

Here, developments rights are needed. That's what we have defended in connection with the web laws. It is in this second world that wanted to build law enforcement responses, we want to repeal today. Guest: What is the position of the Socialist Party against the web laws, which punishes illegal downloading and the law on internal security, Loppsi? Do missions evolve or is it the hunt for "pirates" will intensify? What is amazing with Internet Piracy is the inability to recognize that there has been as off-market trade in internet surfer are normal consequences of the digital revolution.

The repeal of Hadopi does not mean quite the contrary, the abandonment of copyright in the relationship that artists have with their producers and the cultural industries. The Loppsi is an internal security law which now offers filtering methods to conduct the fight, also essential, against child pornography sites.

It poses two problems: first, the ineffectiveness of these techniques that the associations that fight this scourge themselves denounce. On the other hand, establishing a precedent that could, if extended to other areas, leading to filtering without any judicial intervention. I think it would obviously improve the tools of repression of pornography, not just by this measure illusory.

William: What do you license a comprehensive, integrated Internet subscriptions, which would download music and movies without limit, in exchange for a fixed amount each month? First, we must distinguish between market exchanges and trade outside or near the market. It is obviously necessary to find conditions that will allow commercial offers to develop.

Today, they are often limited by two obstacles: the locking of catalogs and the cost of bandwidth for small innovative companies. It would take one of the ideas of the mission Zelnick, apparently abandoned in recent months, which proposed the establishment of a system of collective management.

At each step of great technological breakthrough, with the cinema, radio, or analog media, it has found, often unanimously, a good balance of rights and equitable remuneration methods. Models of different nature coexist: they will rely on advertising, subscriptions or partnerships with operators and service providers.

The issue of finding counterparties to trade off the market is quite another. Here, forms of compensation pooled must be seriously considered. We should have done much earlier: the cultural creation has missed considerable funding, which can come from operators and Internet users. It will therefore in due course, initiate a grand bargain on this issue, involving artists, manufacturers and users.

Arena: What is your assessment of the music map, a system of government whose objective is to promote legal offers of music? It is especially important to ask very quickly to the Minister of Culture. As a parliamentarian, I will ask soon the minister of culture on this issue. What I understand though, is that this card to purchase music tracks from around the world.

So it was not support for French and European cultural diversity. Fabrizio: What does the PS about the levy on private copying? We have on this subject as on others, a balance sheet in 2012. He will fight a conviction at the European level, including what Catherine Trautmann European Parliament.

We have no desire to challenge the fee for private copying, and is one of compensation and types of financing that have been found useful for the culture. It is also necessary that the rules are transparent, that the artists really reap profits, and that in consideration the consequences of the digital revolution can be accepted by all.

Bear: Did not there be lagging in coverage with broadband in France? I fully agree with this diagnosis. French is the delay in the process of expanding. Why? Despite appearances, there is no pilot in the aircraft. If left unchecked, the deployment of fiber to the home (FTTH) will claim 20 or 25 years.

Again, solutions will be made tomorrow on condition that the state deigns to hear and listen to local communities. Today, efforts are launched in order: on the one hand, operators who walk softly and sometimes hidden, we must never forget that they are not developers of digital territory and they must first accountable to their shareholders of the profitability of their investments.

On the other hand, the state has allocated insufficient resources in the large loan and failed to find a method to obtain, with regions and departments, a shared vision and a strategy which must bear a true ambition of universal digital coverage. This implies a calendar, sharing funding and sharing of good public and private efforts.

If these conditions are met, and two or three regions seem to get there, we could have a horizon of ten years deploying fiber throughout the French territory. This would necessarily be a co-investment public and private, but for now it looks more like a jungle. Operators will cover the very dense areas and then we call communities by firefighters.

Today there are two possible ways to restore order and dynamics: either a single national operator coordinating investment of operators and public funders, thus avoiding duplication and over-investment in large cities; with, of course , of regional variations. Or we could assign each region a pilot workforce.

In all cases a mixture of private investment and financing by the State, local and Europe. The public share is estimated to need around 30 billion euros. Snowy: Do you do the same analysis on the highest throughput for mobile devices? How to develop networks of fourth generation (4G)? One way to do this is of course to make a good distribution of the digital dividend, which is a precious common good and must be apportioned according to the general interest.

4G is the "key of nomadism," and it's also for the territories where the fiber will take several more years to reach a temporary solution, as can be as Wimax. So of course, wireless solutions are interesting. Dario: Are you aware that there is virtually no start-up successful French and European level and not the least because it is impossible to find financing in France? How will you help the French start-ups? We must arrive to come out on top in this debate we have in France for almost 20 years, ie since the beginning of the new digital economy.

What are the ways to support an innovation economy? It is first, of course, develop overall usage of digital. Here, public support is necessary. For the city 2.0, augmented reality, telemedicine, e-administration, creative industries ... These are sectors that derive demand and need support.

Then for start-ups, we must first find finally active and flexible procedures for financing the development projects. This is an obvious challenge for public investment bank, to be able to meet the needs of start-ups, and not just big industry SMEs. The tax and social support in the early years is also essential.

But many things are playing in our ability to help students who have a project, whether in universities or laboratories. What are each of innovative ecosystems, with a range of tools very close to the ground, must be invented in major university towns and in each region. We know what does not: cumbersome procedures with distant policy makers, or tax incentives that ignore the dynamics of start-ups.

Thus, most of the research tax credit has been diverted to large groups. Paul: What is your policy deal with Internet giants like Google and Apple? How to promote innovative companies meet this competition? This does not pass exclusively through the support for start-ups, even if it is essential.

This also requires the support of major programs on the uses. For culture, for example, time and energy spent the last ten years fighting what is called piracy could have been much more usefully spent on innovation. That is the challenge of the post-2012. Simon: What do you think of "net neutrality"? Do you propose a framework to protect it? We have proposed a bill to the National Assembly a few weeks ago.

Today, the Net neutrality is a valuable asset that can say that the Internet is still, thankfully, a common good. It must be very attentive to the threats to today's digital networks. The first is a form of "privatization" of a substantial part of the networks, with the risk that the Internet comes down gradually to a public space residual.

The second risk is the need for better network management, which must not be arbitrary and discriminatory. Finally, we mentioned, the third would affect the filtering or disconnection without any judicial review. Net neutrality should be enshrined in law: it is a fundamental principle which can make exceptions for genuine reasons of general interest, but the rule must be neutral.

Michael: France is often cited as the country "No. 1" on free software. What are the programmatic thrust of the PS in this area? We now have over a decade of experience in this area and it is important that the efforts of public customers do not relax. This sector is highly responsive, which has an economic reality, and that we should support.

This is an original mode of cooperation: Free Software is a global cooperative that fosters innovation. it should also support public procurement, and as an economic sector in its own right. Vincent T: What are your ambitions for the "open data" (open data)? We support at all levels, this huge movement of open data.

There is a huge educational effort to do so within two to three years ahead. It is a citizens' movement that institutions must understand and which they must react positively. Jorge: Do you think the rights of Internet users are sufficiently protected by current legislation? We in the National Assembly a mission to privacy in the digital age.

Waiting for my part the conclusions of this work group to see what possible measures, which are not themselves detrimental to freedom. Jean Alain: PS Will it access to the Internet to all citizens a basic right, like in Finland? I remember some of our recent fighting: the Socialists won the Constitutional Council, at the Battle of Hadopi that Internet access is considered a fundamental right which permits the exercise of other freedoms.

On the occasion of the bill on Net Neutrality, I defended (a week before Hillary Clinton) right at the connection, which must be regarded today as a human right. We saw the importance in the democratic revolutions in Tech Buzz Arab News. We also know the importance of face repressive laws such as those that were passed in France in recent years.

But I also remember a friend of mine, Joel de Rosnay, spoke already fifteen years ago the right to disconnect ...

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