“I have just discovered with amazement that Barbara is used as surety in the clip of a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic whose name I refuse to mention. Is it necessary to specify that this appropriation as revolting as scandalous, when one knows the work and the humanist commitments of the artist, was made without the agreement of the family of the person concerned? "
Barbara's nephew, Bernard Serf, doesn't mince his words. Like a number of images used in Eric Zemmour's candidacy video, the beneficiary ensures in the columns of
Télérama that
he has never been contacted by the campaign team of the now candidate. On social networks, journalists and media denounce the process.
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"Youtube, always quick to release videos that do not respect copyright will keep Zemmour's video online for how long?"
, asks the journalist of "Quotidien" Julien Bellver.
The intellectual property code specifies that
the names of the author and the source
must be
“clearly indicated”
when using the content.
What was not done by the former journalist of
Figaro
.
According to information from BFMTV, the Gaumont group would not have been warned of the use of certain extracts from its films, including
Un singe en hiver
by Henri Verneuil and
Jeanne D'Arc
by Luc Besson. The newspaper
Les Jours
affirms that the company does not rule out prosecuting the now presidential candidate. Journalist Clément Labot, also "victim" of the loan, would also think about it.
With AFP, the international news television channel France 24, indicated
"oppose in principle to the use of its images and its logo in any political campaign clip"
.
"As a result, the channel will ask for the immediate removal of these images in this clip and will study legal remedies if its request is not followed up
,
"
added the media which offers four global channels of continuous information ( in French, English, Arabic and Spanish), and belongs to the France Médias Monde group.
On the side of BFMTV, the clip was broadcast once and will not be reprogrammed,
"not having the authorizations as a television channel for the broadcasting of certain images"
.
The LCI channel decided to cut the ad after a few minutes, considering that it had shown
"most of this video"
, as reported by
Le Parisien
.
With AFP, BFMTV specified that
"it would not take legal action"
for the use of its own images, also present in the video of the essayist.
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For their part, France Télévisions, INA and Radio France issued a joint press release and demanded accounts:
"Eric Zemmour should pay the rights of the images taken like everyone else."
The three state-owned media said no one had asked for permission for their images.
A spokesman for the Public Sénat channel noted that there were
"five-second images with the logo of Public Sénat, who were not their property since they belonged to in March" ..
.
"We are going to order the team of candidate Zemmour to remove our logo," he
told AFP.
However, the candidate's team defends itself against criticism, citing the so-called
"short quotation" right
, in an email to AFP.
