Eric Zemmour was sentenced once more on Friday March 4, but this time for “copyright infringement”, following the broadcast of his application clip on November 30, 2021, where he had used a number of film extracts without any kind of permission.
The far-right candidate for the presidential election, his party Reconquête! and François Miramont, then responsible for the association Les Amis de Zemmour, were ordered to pay 5,000 euros to each of the eleven civil parties and 10,000 euros in legal costs, i.e. a total of 165,000 euros. They have one week to cut the contentious sequences, under penalty of a penalty of 1,500 euros per day of delay – which amounts to deleting the famous video.
“It is no longer time to reform France, but to save it. That’s why I decided to run for president.”had declared the former columnist of the Figaro in a ten-minute twilight video. He was reading a text, in a dark library and in front of a very Radio-London microphone, interspersed with archive images and his campaign, once morest the background of the 2e movement of the 7e Symphony de Beethoven.
Formal notice
Many rights holders reacted. The Gaumont company was indignant at the use of images fromA monkey in winter, of which Henri Verneuil was the director and co-screenwriter, with Michel Audiard and François Boyer. The production company Europacorp, joint holder with Gaumont of the film rights Jeanne D’Arc, by Luc Besson, had protested. Like François Ozon, the director of In the Houseadapted from the play by Juan Mayorga Ruano, The boy in the back rowproduced in particular by the New Distribution Company (SND), a company responsible for distributing copyright.
Alain Brunard was worried regarding borrowings from his documentary-fiction Louis Pasteur, portrait of a visionary, of which he is the co-screenwriter, with Marie-Noëlle Himbert and Yann Le Gal. The video finally borrowed from Quay of the Mists, by Marcel Carné, of which Jacques Prévert was a screenwriter: the widow of Roland Lesaffre, the universal legatee of Carné, and Eugénie Bachelot, heiress of his grandfather Jacques Prévert, were indignant. Gaumont, Luc Besson, the SND and seven of the heirs had sent a formal notice to Eric Zemmour and his party on 1is3 and 17 December 2021 to delete the footage – to no avail.
“Infringement of the right to respect for the work”
The candidate’s lawyer, Mr.e Olivier Pardo, argued that it was only a “right of short quotation” perfectly legal, and deemed most of the civil parties inadmissible, from whom he claimed 20,000 euros in damages and 10,000 euros in legal costs.
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