Rod Of Justice For French Internet Infringers May Soften 30/05/2012 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)By Catherine Saez The French “three-strike” law aimed at preventing illegal downloading of protected works on the internet, enacted in October 2009 after much controversy, may be modified by the newly elected French government, according to sources. French blog Numerama reports (in French) that the so-called Hadopi law will not be abrogated but amended after several months of consultations with all the stakeholders. In an article written by François Hollande, now French president, and published by French newspaper Le Monde on 3 March (in French), Hollande said protecting authors is a priority and piracy is not a minor problem to address, but a new economic model is to be found to address illegal downloading of protected works. More on Hadopi here: (IPW, IP Live, 23 October 2009). Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Related "Rod Of Justice For French Internet Infringers May Soften" by Intellectual Property Watch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.