Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Wizzgo launched an online petition to save his digital video recorder

Convinced of unfair competition, trademark infringement and has seen its services as "unlawful and constitute infringements of copyright and neighboring rights", Wizzgo had been forced to no longer offer registration emissions France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5, TF1 and NT1.

Not to mention that last August, the same court had prohibited the same company to provide Internet programs channels M6 and W9.

Today, to save his digital video recorder, Wizzgo has launched an online petition entitled: Petition to government for the right to private copy with a VCR online.

During his appearance before the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris, Wizzgo had argued that its use of video online falls under the right to private copying prepared by the Intellectual Property Code. But the court rejected this argument from the publisher: "The private copying exception does not apply to a company which provides copies to others, the copier and the user is not the same person [ ...]".

This petition therefore request that copies be extended to private records online, with the main arguments: "Because I have paid the fee for private copying to my iPod or on an external hard drive and that I must be able to copy my TV "," Because I would like to register for free programs of public channels for which I pay the fee "or" Because it is in line with changing technologies and practices, simply. "

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