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Web War 2.0

 
Things are going crazy in France right now, these last days, several startups have been put on trial, either because they do RSS aggregation (Fuzz.fr and many many more) or because they do UGC and ratings (Justeacote.com, Note2be…).
Most RSS aggregation website sued are in trouble because they have displayed a feed coming from a popular […]

Par Fabrice Epelboin

 

Things are going crazy in France right now, these last days, several startups have been put on trial, either because they do RSS aggregation (Fuzz.fr and many many more) or because they do UGC and ratings (Justeacote.com, Note2be…).

Most RSS aggregation website sued are in trouble because they have displayed a feed coming from a popular People & gossip magazine, and UGC/user rating website are sued because they wanted to have their users rate teactcher, restaurants, bars… you name it (all part of an informal lobby/union with its own privileges in France, and among those privileges, a total lack of transparency as a shield against any change).

So what’s left for french startups?

I understand a big well-funded startup being sued for copyright infringement (French Dailymotion for example), but all the websites I’m talking of here are small one-team startups.

Add to that a new ‘New economy’ state secretary, freshly nominated, and a special adviser to the French President, also freshly nominated… So far, we’ve got no declaration, nothing said about the situation, nothing to comment…

Dark ages are coming for French startups. Resistance is futile, I might just cross a border, and get rid of the problem.

2 Commentaires

  1. sophie a fait ce commentaire le 26 mars 2008 | Permalien

    Ce lien devrait t’intéresser
    http://www.laquadrature.net/ un sujet
    pour Eric Besson ;)

  2. Fabrice Epelboin a fait ce commentaire le 12 avril 2008 | Permalien

    http://www.laquadrature.net/
    Cool. A popular initiative to try and resist a control freak central government… er… Deja vu, no? Do we need another Olivennes to learn anything?

    I’m affraid Mulder migh be right, the truth is elsewhere, and might be Europe: check this out: http://mashable.com/2008/04/11/guy-bono-net-access-eu/

    Let’s just get the hell out of here and move to Europe!

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