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French court based in Nanterre (next to Paris) asked for EMI Music France to remove any cd copy protection from their audio cd. According to the civil code art. 1641 this could considered as a hidden defect.

A court judged that the locking mechanisms anti-copy of CD represented anomalies constitutive of hidden defect.

The Court of Nanterre (next to Paris) has just judged that the locking mechanisms anti-copy of CD of Alain Souchon “I want the live one” were anomalies constitutive of “vice hidden”.
Justice thus recognizes the right for the consumers in locked CD possession which would have encountered difficulties of reading of making play the legal guarantee of the hidden defects, contained in articles 1641 of the Civil code. They can ask the refunding of CD, its exchange against another not locked or a reduction in the price near the houses of disc.

In the case of Alain Souchon, the album, produced by the company Emi Music France and bought by a consumer in a Auchan supermarket, was illegible on a car radio of series of Renault CLIO.

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