http://www.lostremote.com/2007/03/06/france-bans-citizens-from-reporting-violence/ Where TV Finds the Future Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:11:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/03/06/france-bans-citizens-from-reporting-violence/#comment-211185 Clément Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:30:30 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/03/06/france-bans-citizens-from-reporting-violence/#comment-211185 As a French student in law and faithful LR reader, I had to comment. I just went and read the actual text of this law, and honestly saying that "France bans citizens from reporting violence" is an absolutely wrong interpretation. What the law says is that the person who knowingly films a violent crime being commited in order to broadcast commits an act of complicity of the crime. There are 2 exceptions in this law : if the person who films exerces a profession whose object is to inform the public (there is no strict definition of a journalist, bloggers could be included), and if the recording is done in order to serve as evidence in justice (the Rodney King video would certainly qualify). What is left is cases where the act of violence is actually done in order to be filmed and broadcast - the "happy slapping" phenomenon. In this case the person who films and therefore encourages the violence is indeed complicit. As a French student in law and faithful LR reader, I had to comment. I just went and read the actual text of this law, and honestly saying that “France bans citizens from reporting violence” is an absolutely wrong interpretation.
What the law says is that the person who knowingly films a violent crime being commited in order to broadcast commits an act of complicity of the crime. There are 2 exceptions in this law : if the person who films exerces a profession whose object is to inform the public (there is no strict definition of a journalist, bloggers could be included), and if the recording is done in order to serve as evidence in justice (the Rodney King video would certainly qualify).
What is left is cases where the act of violence is actually done in order to be filmed and broadcast - the “happy slapping” phenomenon. In this case the person who films and therefore encourages the violence is indeed complicit.

]]> http://www.lostremote.com/2007/03/06/france-bans-citizens-from-reporting-violence/#comment-211041 Anony Mouse Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:41:42 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/03/06/france-bans-citizens-from-reporting-violence/#comment-211041 Does France test and license its journalists? Does France test and license its journalists?

]]> http://www.lostremote.com/2007/03/06/france-bans-citizens-from-reporting-violence/#comment-211019 Safran Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:26:35 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/03/06/france-bans-citizens-from-reporting-violence/#comment-211019 Bunch of merde. Bunch of merde.

]]> http://www.lostremote.com/2007/03/06/france-bans-citizens-from-reporting-violence/#comment-210814 Barry Rader Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:11:38 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/03/06/france-bans-citizens-from-reporting-violence/#comment-210814 This does not stop amateur video from being given to a professional journalist. This does not stop amateur video from being given to a professional journalist.

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