Hadopi Says French National Library Needs Unprotected Works... To Put Its Own DRM On

Found on Techdirt on Monday, 04 February 2013
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According to the French publication, Numerama, Hadopi (the agency in charge of stamping out infringement in France), has published an opinion in which it suggests that content creators give the French National Library (Bibliothèque Nationale de France or BNF) works without any DRM on them.

That said, the report also then appears to fret about the BNF leaking these unprotected works out into the world. The suggestion seems to be that (wait for it...) the BNF then create its own DRM to lock up the unprotected works that it needs to keep them from getting locked up.

People will just use those releases without any DRM from third parties. Just like every other time where someone thought DRM would be a good idea.