WTF does this mean? The point of copyright law is to provide a framework that applies to all copyrighted material, what the French proposed law suggests is that all copyrighted content will now have the effect of have a license on it and taken to the ridiculous extreme you could envision a scenario where someone says “I only want Ted to be able to share this content, not Mary” and the DRM provider would have to enable it or be in violation of French law.

MacNN | French Senate amends iTunes DRM bill:

Macworld UK reports that the French Senate voted to create a new regulatory authority responsible for mediating requests.

“The authority will have the power to order companies to share details of their DRM, but companies will be able to refuse as long as their DRM systems only limit usage of digital music or movies in a way approved by the author or copyright holder,” according to the report.

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