The Pirate Party (, PP) is a

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based on the model of the Swedish Pirate Party. The party proposes the reform of the

copyright law A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, e ...

, free access to scientific knowledge, as well as protection of individual freedom. Like other

pirate parties Pirate Party is a label adopted by various political parties worldwide that share a set of values and policies focused on civil rights in the digital age. The fundamental principles of Pirate Parties include freedom of information, freedom of ...

in Europe, it is affiliated to

European Pirate Party The European Pirates (PIRATES) or European Pirate Party (PPEU) is a pirate European political alliance. Despite its organisation and sometimes being referred to as a "European party" or "transnational party", the European Pirate Party does n ...

(PPEU). The youth organisation is called ''Parti Pirates Jeunes'' (PPJ; ''Pirate Party Youth'') respectively ''Les Jeunes du Parti pirate'' (''The Youth of Pirate Party'').

History

Parti Pirate - Premier coup de semonce electoral

The French Pirate party movement was founded on 21 June 2006, relating to the vote of the French ''Law on Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society'' better known as

DADVSI Loi DADVSI (generally pronounced as ) is the abbreviation of the French ''Loi relative au droit d’auteur et aux droits voisins dans la société de l’information'' (in English: "law on authors' rights and related rights in the information so ...

. Due to dissension a new section of the Pirate Party emerged in 2007, called ''Parti pirate français Canal historique'' (PPFCH). On 4 April 2009, the foundation of the Pirate Party as an organisation was published in the ''

Journal officiel de la République française The ''Official Journal of the French Republic'' (), also known as the ''JORF'' or ''JO'', is the government gazette of the French Republic. It publishes the major legal official information from the national Government of France, the French Pa ...

'' (page 1663, no. 1795). PP and PPFCH had similar aims and reunited in summer of 2009. Already during the debate on the

HADOPI law The French HADOPI law (, English: "Supreme Authority for the Distribution of Works and Protection of Copyright on the Internet") or Creation and Internet law () was introduced during 2009, providing what is known as a graduated response as a mean ...

a further pirate party named ''Parti pirate français'' (PPF) appeared, founded by Rémy Cérésiani. The PPF, which had an identical logo combined with a similar name to the PP was finally disbanded in September 2009. The PP took part in the 10th

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candidate.

Legislative election 2012

The Pirate Party, participated in the 2012 legislative election presenting 101 candidates. Their aim was 50 candidates to receive over 1% to allow them to receive public funding, they only received 24 candidates over 1%. They achieved an average of 0.85% across the districts they stood in. Their best result in metropolitan France was the district of Haut-Rhin with 2.41% but their overall best showing was in the 7th district of oversea French Nationals where they achieved 2.85%.

Election results

European Parliament

References

External links

Parti pirate
at Politiquemania *
Parti pirate Jeunes
(PPJ), youth organization
PP-francophone.net
(project of the PP) {{French political parties

Political parties in France 2006 establishments in France Political parties established in 2006