Janelly Fourtou
{{Short description|French politician (born 1939)}}
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Janelly Fourtou (born 4 February 1939 in Paris) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for central France. She is a member of the Union for French Democracy, which is part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions and its Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.{{cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/groupAndCountry/view.do?partNumber=1&country=FR&language=EN&id=4336 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310175417/http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/groupAndCountry/view.do?partNumber=1&country=FR&language=EN&id=4336|archivedate=10 March 2007|url-status=dead|title= Janelly FOURTOU |website=European Parliament }}
She is also a substitute for the Committee on Legal Affairs, a member of the delegation to the EU–Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of Central America.
Career
In 1972 Fourtou received a Master's degree in language and literature.{{where|date=April 2022}} She works as an assistant at the Paris Chamber of Commerce from 1960 to 1964, then was in charge of bookshop Maison de la Presse in Paris from 1965 to 1969.
She was elected as a member of Neuilly Municipal Council in 1983, and had responsibility for housing from 1989 to 1995, and responsibility for employment from 1995. She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 1999.
Fourtou has been active in the EU Parliaments decisions regarding intellectual property rights. In 2004, she led the passage of a directive "after unofficial meetings with the Council working group and
the Commission",{{cite web|url=http://lists.ffii.org/pipermail/news/2004-March/000203.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183333/http://lists.ffii.org/pipermail/news/2004-March/000203.html|archivedate=3 March 2016|url-status=dead|title=[ffii] Fourtou Directive passed|website= lists.ffii.org|date= 9 March 2021}} suggesting among many other things up to four years of imprisonment for illegal file sharing.{{Cite web |last=Temmink |first=Harrie |date=7 February 2006 |title=The Enforcement Directive 2004/48/EC "Screening" |url=https://www.ab.gov.tr/files/tarama/tarama_files/07/SC07EXP_enforcement.pdf |website=European Commission Internal Market & Services DG}} The directive also included an introduction of private police forces to enforce the law (in the EU member countries that should adopt the directive as-is).{{Cite web |title=Stoppa IPRED |url=http://www.stoppaipred.nu/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081027135158/http://www.stoppaipred.nu/ |archive-date=27 October 2008}}
Personal life
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External links
- {{cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-dif/4336_20-12-2006.pdf |title=DECLARATION DES INTERETS FINANCIERS DES DEPUTES|trans-title=Declaration of financial interests|lang=fr}}
- {{cite web|url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/Notice.do?val=387158 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927074044/http://eur-lex.europa.eu/Notice.do?val=387158|archivedate=27 September 2012|url-status=dead|title=DIRECTIVE 2004/48/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL OF 29 APRIL 2004 ON THE ENFORCEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS}}
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Category:Politicians from Paris
Category:Union for French Democracy MEPs
Category:MEPs for France 1999–2004
Category:MEPs for Massif-central–Centre 2004–2009
Category:20th-century women MEPs for France
Category:21st-century women MEPs for France
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