France: : HADOPI opinion on the exception for making private copies of television programmes

• Autores: Amélie Blocman
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 9, 2014, págs. 20-21
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • On 17 September 2014, the high authority for the broadcasting of works and the protection of rights on the Internet (Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des Oeuvres et la Protection des Droits sur Internet � HADOPI) published an interesting opinion, further to a referral by two individuals on the exception for making a private copy of television programmes received via an Internet access provider (IAP) or by satellite. One of HADOPI�s tasks is to ensure that the technical measures used to protect works do not hamper interoperability and the exercise of exceptions to copyright, such as making a private copy. The complainants argued that it was only possible to record digital-format programmes using the recorder incorporated in the hardware supplied by the IAP or in the satellite receiver and that use of the copies was restricted by technical protective measures, which prevented the interoperability of the recordings made. Thus changing provider, and sometimes even just replacing the receiver, could result in the loss of all recordings made previously.