The Association des Audionautes is a French lobby group founded by Aziz Ridouan, Quentin Renaudo and

Jean-Baptiste Soufron Jean-Baptiste Soufron (born 6 April 1978) is a lawyer and writer in Bordeaux, France. He has been an advisor to the French government and the former general secretary of the Conseil national du numérique, French National Digital Council (2012–2 ...

in October 2004 that supports Internet users sharing files, including copyrighted material, over

peer-to-peer Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the network, forming a peer-to-peer network of Node ...

networks. It provides legal information to

Internet The Internet (or internet) is the Global network, global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a internetworking, network of networks ...

users accused of

copyright 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, ...

infringement. It lobbies for the establishment of a "legal licence" for

users, whereby they would be immune to prosecution for copyright infringement as long as their trading is noncommercial and they pay a flat fee, which would be distributed to artists and producers as are other similar fees (on blank media, or for

radio Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 3 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connec ...

and TV uses). See

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 ...

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Official site

Official blog - English section
Politics of France Political advocacy groups in France Intellectual property activism Organizations established in 2004 Copyright law organizations 2004 establishments in France {{France-org-stub