DADVSI
Sign in to savethumb|First page of the bill as finally adopted by both houses of Parliament Loi DADVSI (generally pronounced as ) is the abbreviation of the French Loi relative au droit d’auteur et aux droits voisins dans la société de l’information (in English: "law on authors' rights and related rights in the information society"). It is a bill reforming French copyright law, mostly in order to implement the 2001 Information Society Directive, which in turn implements a 1996 WIPO treaty.
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20 sectionsContents
- Legal background
- Politics
- Legislative process
- Political importance
- Lobbying
- Confusion
- Protests and Internet actions
- Repression of Internet copying of copyrighted works
- Sharing of copyrighted works over peer-to-peer networks
- The "global license"
- Criminalisation of DRM circumvention
- The "Vivendi Universal" amendments
- Copyright exceptions
- Other contents of the law
- Notable individuals and groups
- Timeline
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Analyses
thumb|First page of the bill as finally adopted by both houses of Parliament Loi DADVSI (generally pronounced as ) is the abbreviation of the French Loi relative au droit d’auteur et aux droits voisins dans la société de l’information (in English: "law on authors' rights and related rights in the information society"). It is a bill reforming French copyright law, mostly in order to implement the 2001 Information Society Directive, which in turn implements a 1996 WIPO treaty.
The law, despite being initially dismissed as highly technical and of no concern to the average person, generated considerable controversy when it was examined by the French Parliament between December 2005 and June 30, 2006, when it was finally voted through by both houses.