French minister promises action

Tuesday October 28, 2008

Albanel told the group, “Of course, there is no secret plan to impose the French anti-piracy plan to the rest of Europe. I simply wish that our experience will prove an inspiration for other European states whose cultural businesses are as threatened as the French ones.”

According to the Minister, this law “won’t be the law of the majors, it will be the law of all creators and of all the cultural industries, 90% of them being SMEs; it won’t be the law for well-known artists but one for young talent: it won’t be a law for the CEOs of big corporate companies but a law for hundreds of thousands of people employed in this field, from the technician to the artist, from the author to the producer.”

The Minister was speaking at the first Les Arenes de l’independence in Paris, which was to show the value of cultural SMEs, both in renewal of creation and in the economy of culture.