Nicholas Sarkozi, the French President believes that serious copyright offenders should be disconnected from the Internet by the service providers. The French Court disagrees, considering Internet Access a basic human right – which is a bit daft in my opinion, although I am all for free access to information.
Anyway, since Mr Sarkozi’s presidential services have made 400 bootleg copies of a documentary about the president, he is clearly a serious copyright offender.
The French satirical investigative journalism weekly “ Le Canard Enchaîné” reveals “that our holier-than-thou presidency is in fact a pirate’s lair. In a stunning display of hypocrisy, the presidential audiovisual services produced 400 unauthorized copies of the 52 minutes documentary “A visage découvert : Nicolas Sarkozy”…
Unfortunately, this is not the first instance of copyright infringment by his excellency:
It is even more appalling that we are dealing with repeat offenders : last spring, while the Hadopi law was discussed, U.S. music duo MGMT received €30,000 as a settlement for a copyright infringement by French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s party who used one of its songs at a political rally without permission. Those who led the charge against Internet users are not the most respectful of copyright.”
As it is unlikely that the French president wants these recordings for personal viewing, this clearly goes well beyond any reasoanble description of fair use, and we call on my Sarkozy to disconnect himself from the Internet, or to resign from politics.
