The far-right candidate has been convicted of copyright counterfeiting by the Paris court, Friday, March 4th. His condemnation did not impose the withdrawal of the clip, but ordered that it is no longer broadcast with the excerpts in question.
Le Monde with AFP
Eric Zemmour’s presidential announcement clip was blocked by YouTube in France after the political conviction of the political man for using images without authorization, “said the platform on Thursday March 10. This clip is no longer available for French users, but remains visible elsewhere in the world.
According to YouTube France, this blockage was decided after a “request for withdrawal from one entitled [owner of certain images present in the clip], which was argued on the basis of the recent decision of the judicial court. from Paris condemning the video for counterfeiting “.
” according to the law “
In a judgment on Friday, March 4, the judicial court of Paris condemned Eric Zemmour, his party reconquest! And one of his relatives, François Miramont, for “counterfeiting of copyright” and “suffering to moral and patrimonial rights” for using without permission of movie images in this clip.
The court decision did not impose the withdrawal of the clip, but ordered that it is no longer broadcast with the excerpts in question. This decision should be applied within seven days, under penalty of a penalty of 1,500 euros per day late.
“When a copyright holder notifies us a court decision on a video that violates his copyrights, we quickly suspend the content in accordance with the law,” commented YouTube France. The court also sentenced the far-right candidate, his party reconquest! And François Miramont, then responsible for the association the friends of Zemmour, 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.
Three million views
This clip of about ten minutes, broadcast simultaneously on different channels on November 30, 2021, had been seen more than three million times on YouTube before blocking.
“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, in front of a reminisant microphone Radio-London; This reading was illustrated with archival images and its campaign, on the back of the 2 e symphony of Beethoven.
Among the plaintiffs were Gaumont and Europacorp, directors Luc Besson and François Ozon, the Society of Authors and Dramatic Composers (SACD) or the rights of director Henri Verneuil and the writer and writer Jacques Prévert.
They challenged the unauthorized use of extracts from the Joan of Arc de Luc Besson (1999), a monkey in winter of Henri Verneuil (1962), in the house of François Ozon (2012), the wharf Mist of Marcel Carna (1938) and Docu-Fiction Louis Pasteur, portrait of a visionary (2011). This clip used other images of movies or news whose owners had not attacked.