PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged the leaders of the Internet met in Paris Tuesday to work with Governments and equitably share the benefits of a revolution he likened to discoveries of Columbus, Galileo and Newton.
Opening of a forum in which, Eric Schmidt of Google and Facebook Mark Zuckerberg will be among the speakers, Sarkozy heaped praise on an industry that has democratized information and helped activate the revolutions of Arab spring.
Sarkozy, that mistrusted widely worldwide online for measures, as a law that calls for pirates of copyright to be cut off from the Internet, struck a more conciliatory than in the past, although he said that Governments should always define the rules of the game.
"We do not make mistakes in the regulation of this powerful yet fragile ecosystem," he said in response to a question from a member of the public. "We must act with pragmatism." "It is better to do nothing that harm to the".
He reminded industry of its responsibilities in the areas of copyright and privacy law, establish a parallel between the intellectual property on which many Web companies are built and copyright artists seek to protect.
"These algorithms that make your power... this technology that changes the world, are your property and no one can contest that," he said. "" "." "Writers, directors, or actors can have the same rights".
CYBERSPACE CIVILISATRICE
The forum, whose conclusions will be presented to the G8 leaders in the French resort of Deauville later this week, pits passionate advocates from two points of view opposing the Internet against the other.
The one adopted by companies such as Google and Twitter Silicon Valley, so that many academics, favoured an interventionist approach to enable innovation and freedom of information.
The other, adopted by of many established companies in media, privacy advocates and Governments, provides a regulatory to tame any excess and abuse online.
The debate was thrown in the spotlight in Britain this week as Twitter users by the thousands make a mockery of the injunctions obtained by the rich and famous to hush up the scandals, by publishing the names and details.
The case has highlighted the near impossibility to impose national law on the Internet and cultural differences between Europe and the United States.
News Corp., including Executive Director Rupert Murdoch is among the speakers at the forum, led a movement to stem the free flow of information online by charging readers and viewers for the content on the Web.
John Perry Barlow, a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which supports the internet civil rights, said: "it is the revenge of the mass media."
"We tried to civilize the cyberspace for 22 years," he told Reuters when asked why he attended the forum. "It is a good idea to be present when the movement is suspicious to withdraw some of the values you cherish."
Hubert Burda, Chief Executive and the owner of a German magazine and newspaper empire, told Reuters that the forum was a welcome step by a European Government.
"This is the first combination between European policy and the World Wide Web," he said. "Many European Governments have been back in the understanding of the digital revolution."
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