The extreme right candidate was sentenced to a fine for “copyright infringement” by the Paris court. He had used video excerpts without authorization in his nomination clip.
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Eric Zemmour was convicted again, Friday, March 4th, but this time for “copyright counterfeiting”, after the dissemination of his nomination clip, on November 30, 2021, where he had used many extracts movies without any kind of authorization.
The extreme right candidate in the presidential election, his party reconquest! And François Miramont, then responsible for the friends of Zemmour, are sentenced to pay 5,000 euros to each of the eleven civil parties and 10,000 euros of court costs, a total of 165,000 euros. They have a week to cut the contentious sequences, under pain of a penalty of 1,500 euros per day of delay – which amounts to removing the famous video.
“It’s no longer time to reform France, but to save it. That’s why I decided to introduce myself to the presidential election,” said the former chronicler of Figaro in a twilight video ten minutes. He read a text, in a dark library and in front of a very radio london microphone, interspersed with archival images and his campaign, on the back of the 2 e Movement of the 7 e Beethoven Symphony.
Settlement
Number of beneficiaries had reacted. Gaumont was indignant to the use of images of a winter monkey, including Henri Verneuil was the director and co-screenwriter, with Michel Audiard and François Boyer. The Europacorp production company, co-holder with Gaumont of the rights of the film Jeanne d’Arc, from Luc Besson had protested. Like François Ozon, the director of in the house, adapted from the play of Juan Mayorga Ruano, the boy of the last rank, produced in particular by the company New de Distribution (SND), a company responsible for distributing copyrights .
Alain BRUNARD had worried about his documentary Fiction Louis Pasteur, portrait of a visionary, of which he is the co-screenwriter, with Marie-Noëlle Himbert and Yann Le Gal. The video finally borrowed from the mists, Marcel Carné, of which Jacques Prévert was a screenwriter: the widow of Roland Lesaffre, the universal legatee of carna, and Eugenie Bachelot, heiress of his grandfather Jacques Prévert, had unwound. Gaumont, Luc Besson, the SND and seven of the heirs had sent a formal notice to Eric Zemmour and his party the Er , 3 and 17 December 2021 to remove the sequences – in vain.
“Avoiding the right to respect the work”
The lawyer of the candidate, M e Olivier Pardo, argued that it was only a “right of short quote” perfectly legal, and judged inadmissible most civil parties , to whom he claimed 20,000 euros for damages, and 10,000 euros of court costs.
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