"Apple's lawyers might want to drink a glass of French Champagne today, but not a whole bottle," said Dominique Menard, partner at the Lovells law firm and a specialist in intellectual property. "The Constitutional Council has highlighted fundamental protections for intellectual property in such a way as to put iTunes a little further from risk of the French law."Read on over here.
Released late Thursday, the council's 12-page legal finding made frequent reference to the 1789 Declaration on Human Rights and concluded that the law violated the constitutional protections of property.
French iPod law unconstitutional?
Posted on Monday, July 31 2006 @ 21:59 CEST by Thomas De MaesschalckThe French Constitutional Council has declared some big aspects of the so-called iPod law unconstitutional:
