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Google to French data cops: Dot-com RTBF? Baiser ma DERRIERE

tom dial Silver badge

I suspect that copyright gets into rather different territory than RTBF, as it (the 'C' in DMCA) involves a good many treaties where copyright in one country is treated as copyright in others as well. RTBF is unencumbered by such matters and is the law only in the EU. The cases are not at all comparable in scope.

RTBF probably could be extended by treaty to countries outside the EU but not, I think, the US where it appears it would conflict in a pretty straightforward way with the first amendment. As much as some of our progressives, so called, want to cripple it, the first amendment is likely to remain as is due to the difficulty of the constitutional amendment process.

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