It appears the new law on drones in France, completely forbids you to use your drone with camera and very strictly if not only for only very playful use meaning family use.
French governement has created new job specifications you have to register at the Chamber of commerce if you want to make anything usefull with your drone.
That may also include quality photographs made from friends that you may give them, because that would stel the job to a professionnal drone photographer. A frien of mine who is lawyer quite clearly interprets the new law this way.
This is going much much farther.
If you are architect or engineer and work on buildings, for instance, even if you take the licence to fly a drone, which is not in any way mandatory over 2kg (and you only have to declare a drone heavier than 800grams without any need of licence), you would be forbidden to take photographs of your own building without registering at the chamber of commerce as a professionnal drone photographer and pay all the taxes for that business and any photograph at the copyright protection society, which then, may also forbid you from doing your own job on the subject in some cases (because people and company working on a subject have to be different with diffrent working people)...
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It's the job segmentation policy in France that has started with the socialist government of president François Hollande in 2011, and going on with Mr Macron. For every task you have to use a different guy, different company, plenty of new taxes and unnecessary rules made by incompetent bureaucrats and some fancy interests, even if putting at stall all the economy. Inventing stupid protected unnecessary jobs.
I would be interested to know if this is the case elsewhere, especially in EU since the kind of french bureacrats leading France are the same at the head of the EU. Luckily every other EU country is trying to protect his own against those kind of stupid rules.
So the big problem here is not the drone use which is kind of very much allowed, but clearly the right to take pictures and movies with a drone.
I for instance have to tell some days ago for some images of my new building project, that I needed to register, that I took the pictures with a camera on a pole, while I used my Spark drone (I even modified the Exifs to look like they were from my smartphone). The administration asked me very clearly. So this is now very strictly watched in France.
French governement has created new job specifications you have to register at the Chamber of commerce if you want to make anything usefull with your drone.
That may also include quality photographs made from friends that you may give them, because that would stel the job to a professionnal drone photographer. A frien of mine who is lawyer quite clearly interprets the new law this way.
This is going much much farther.
If you are architect or engineer and work on buildings, for instance, even if you take the licence to fly a drone, which is not in any way mandatory over 2kg (and you only have to declare a drone heavier than 800grams without any need of licence), you would be forbidden to take photographs of your own building without registering at the chamber of commerce as a professionnal drone photographer and pay all the taxes for that business and any photograph at the copyright protection society, which then, may also forbid you from doing your own job on the subject in some cases (because people and company working on a subject have to be different with diffrent working people)...
.
It's the job segmentation policy in France that has started with the socialist government of president François Hollande in 2011, and going on with Mr Macron. For every task you have to use a different guy, different company, plenty of new taxes and unnecessary rules made by incompetent bureaucrats and some fancy interests, even if putting at stall all the economy. Inventing stupid protected unnecessary jobs.
I would be interested to know if this is the case elsewhere, especially in EU since the kind of french bureacrats leading France are the same at the head of the EU. Luckily every other EU country is trying to protect his own against those kind of stupid rules.
So the big problem here is not the drone use which is kind of very much allowed, but clearly the right to take pictures and movies with a drone.
I for instance have to tell some days ago for some images of my new building project, that I needed to register, that I took the pictures with a camera on a pole, while I used my Spark drone (I even modified the Exifs to look like they were from my smartphone). The administration asked me very clearly. So this is now very strictly watched in France.
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