It must be underlined that there are many more issues, at stake in this law proposal, than just the necessary exception for education and research, like free interoperability, DRMs, Free Software, Arts, P2P, etc... Since this discussion is related to topics to be voted by the French Parliament, most of the documents are in French. English speaking people may try to explore those pages using the two automatic translation tools ( Google top of page, Altavista bottom ) that are available within each page.

• Exception Education / Recherche : exception aux droits exclusifs des ayants-droits dans le cadre d'activités d'enseignement et de recherche.
  
  
• Discussions and Law Making process ( in english, this is not the translation of the French version that contains many,... many more documents ).
  
  
• Discussions et Procédure Legislative ( DADVSI )
  
  
• P2P et contenus mulimédias : La proposition du Mécénat Global
  
  
• P2P Legal Situation in various countries ( Draft )