{"id":59,"date":"2005-06-02T11:11:09","date_gmt":"2005-06-02T15:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2005\/06\/02\/dvd-copy-control-class-action-in-fran"},"modified":"2006-12-10T06:44:58","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T10:44:58","slug":"dvd-copy-control-class-action-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2005\/06\/02\/dvd-copy-control-class-action-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD Copy Control: Class Action in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a89\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.bna.com\/ip\/BNA\/eip.nsf\/is\/a0b0x5n8j0\">BNA&#8217;s Electronic Commerce &amp; Law Report<\/a> (subscription required) reports that French attorneys have filed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classaction.fr\/actions\/action1\/assignation-cp.pdf\">class action<\/a> against six of France&#8217;s leading audio-visual sector firms, claiming that the use of copy control technology on DVDs violates consumers&#8217; right to make private copies for personal use. The complaint is based on a French appellate court&#8217;s ruling mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2005\/04\/24#a69\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BNA&#8217;s Electronic Commerce &amp; Law Report (subscription required) reports that French attorneys have filed a class action against six of France&#8217;s leading audio-visual sector firms, claiming that the use of copy control technology on DVDs violates consumers&#8217; right to make private copies for personal use. The complaint is based on a French appellate court&#8217;s ruling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1166,877,1164,1163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-protection","category-drm","category-private-copying","category-tpm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}