DADVSI
On 21 December 2005, in the debates on DADVSI, she took a public stand against the amendments of the Socialist Group introducing the "global license" for download. On 26 December, she signed with the Deputy Mayor of Paris responsible for Culture, Christophe Girard, a view in the newspaper Le Monde in which she defended her position on behalf of cultural diversity which would be threatened by the "global license". She was in fact defending the interests of Vivendi Universal, the music and film major which employed her a few years earlier.
On 3 January 2006, she presented with François Adibi and culture section of the Socialist Party a report and new recommendations. "for a fair solution", rejecting both the DRM (Digital Rights Management) that the "global license". She was later disavowed by the leadership of the SP which chose to defend at the National Assembly the global license advocated by Patrick Bloche (Paris), Didier Mathus (Saône-et-Loire) and Christian Paul (Nièvre).
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