France will be the first European country to adopt a law of seven articles on the price of digital books. This will be enacted before the summer, according to government commitments. It will provide publishers the control of prices of digital files meet distributors (Amazon, Google, Apple), that they are present on national territory or abroad.
For their part, the authors obtained that they be paid "a fair and equitable" in case of digital exploitation of their works, with accountability "explicit and transparent" by the publisher. Tuesday, May 3, the joint commission (CMP), comprising seven deputies and seven senators reached an agreement, approved unanimously.
The bill should be passed, Thursday, May 5, the Senate, and in a fortnight by the National Assembly. A compromise, the text "guarantees compensation of creation," said Herve Gaymard. "We refuse to enter into the logic" Amazon ", which is to favor only the consumers," added the MP (UMP) of Savoy, who was one of the two rapporteurs of the bill with Colette Mélot, Senator (UMP ) Seine-et-Marne.
The extraterritorial jurisdiction (Article 3) and the share of royalties due to authors (Article 5a) were the two points that stumbled between Assemblies. The agreement reached represents a strong political signal against the Brussels Commission, which is hostile to any upstream regulation of emerging markets.
In March, inspectors from the competition agencies raided the major French publishing groups to verify that no agreement existed between them on the price of digital books. French law will be challenged by the Brussels authorities, as the Lang Law on the price of book was the subject of litigation in the 1990s.
"We have two years to prepare," said Mr Gaymard. Article published in the edition of 06.05.11 Discover books on fnac. com 
For their part, the authors obtained that they be paid "a fair and equitable" in case of digital exploitation of their works, with accountability "explicit and transparent" by the publisher. Tuesday, May 3, the joint commission (CMP), comprising seven deputies and seven senators reached an agreement, approved unanimously.
The bill should be passed, Thursday, May 5, the Senate, and in a fortnight by the National Assembly. A compromise, the text "guarantees compensation of creation," said Herve Gaymard. "We refuse to enter into the logic" Amazon ", which is to favor only the consumers," added the MP (UMP) of Savoy, who was one of the two rapporteurs of the bill with Colette Mélot, Senator (UMP ) Seine-et-Marne.
The extraterritorial jurisdiction (Article 3) and the share of royalties due to authors (Article 5a) were the two points that stumbled between Assemblies. The agreement reached represents a strong political signal against the Brussels Commission, which is hostile to any upstream regulation of emerging markets.
In March, inspectors from the competition agencies raided the major French publishing groups to verify that no agreement existed between them on the price of digital books. French law will be challenged by the Brussels authorities, as the Lang Law on the price of book was the subject of litigation in the 1990s.
"We have two years to prepare," said Mr Gaymard. Article published in the edition of 06.05.11 Discover books on fnac. com
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