Critics have been coming from all sides since the broadcast of Eric Zemmour's campaign clip on Tuesday.
The candidate is notably accused of having used extracts from films or videos, without the authorization of their creators.
The Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers (SACD) cracked a statement Wednesday, December 1 denouncing
"contempt"
shown by the candidate vis-à-vis professionals and artists.
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“We cannot claim to represent the French without respecting their most essential rights, without respecting them. One cannot declare oneself a patriot by starting by flouting the essential principles of French copyright
,
”
says the SACD. Which underlines the accumulation of
"infringements of the rights of many creators"
of the content posted on Tuesday, November 30.
"No prior authorization has been requested
," the letter continued.
The authors are not cited, the sources are not presented, the extracts are used for electoral propaganda purposes… The moral rights of each author are unacceptably violated. ”
Among the excerpts used in the clip, we find works by Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Sautet, Jean-Loup Dabadie, Michelangelo Antonioni, Marcel Carné, Jacques Prévert, Henri Verneuil, Luc Besson, Claude Lelouch, Robert Hossein and Georges Méliès.
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The SACD thus announces that it will stand
"alongside each author, each beneficiary who intends, in this context, to assert their rights"
and that it
"cannot in fact tolerate such violations of copyright, even more from a personality claiming to the highest functions of the State "
, recalling that
" the exercise of the State implies in particular exemplarity, virtue, respect for the French and for the law "
.
Eric Zemmour's candidacy video is not the only content to arouse the wrath of the artistic community.
Singer Woodkid has announced that he will take legal action against a small group supporting the candidate after the release of
"a propaganda video"
in which one of his tracks is used.
The clip has since been removed from social networks.