Legal Niches

French Director Donates to File Sharer's Legal Fund

By james_fudge

Movie director Jean-Luc Godard must have a white stallion. Godard is donating money to a photographer's legal fund, who faces $25,000 in damages for downloading and sharing 13,000 music tracks. James Climent, a French national and photographer, found himself in big trouble over sharing copyrighted materials over Soulseek P2P application. When police came to talk to him about his online habits, Climent said he had a lot of MP3's on his hard drive:

"I had 13,788 mp3 files on my hard drive when the police came to search," Climent told Alexandre Hervaud of Ecrans. "And now I've got more than 30,000."

At the first hearing in 2007 to answer for his filesharing, Climent's lawyer answered a plea of "not guilty." It was a decision he would later regret. By the time the case was winding down in 2009, it was apparent that things were not going Climent's way. Instead Climent plans to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights. Read More

read more

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on September 14, 2010 (boomark / email).