Mouchette website censored - public debate

[anna balint]

Mouchette's website censored by copyright

The French Society of Authors' Rights (SACD) following a request from
Robert Bresson's widow, has forbidden Mouchette of the site
http://mouchette.org to show one of her works related to the film called
"Mouchette" created by Robert Bresson in 1967. The forbidden work is a quiz
comparing both characters, the girl from the film and the girl from the
website. Here is the letter that forbids the film quiz:
http://mouchette.org/film/sacd.html

This interdiction unfortunately censors a work which is an homage
celebrating the source of its inspiration. The narrow-mindedness of the
heir of the copyright is the only cause for this interdiction. As a
protest, several websites are presenting copies of this quiz which is no
longer allowed to be shown on mouchette.org.

The activities in support of mouchette.org will be announced at the
following websites, where the URLs of the several copies will also be
constantly updated:
http://artlibre.org/events.php/miroirs/mouchette.html
http://www.constantvzw.com/copy.cult/mouchette/
The information in English will be available here:
http://drivedrive.com/mouchette/censored.html

You can download the forbidden work here and install it on your own site:
http://www.constantvzw.com/copy.cult/mirror/

A public debate and a press conference will take place in Marseille at La
Compagnie on the 2nd of November to discuss the situation regarding
copyright laws and the internet with a panel consisting of Pierre
Bongiovanni, Antoine Moreau, Anne Laforet, Catherine Arnaud, Nicolas
Maleve, a spokesperson for mouchette.org and specialists on the questions
of copyright.  For more information on the debate mailto: isa at aux2mondes.org