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On 20 December 2011, the French parliament adopted a new act on private copying levies. This followed a ruling of the Conseil d’Etat (Council of State) of 17 June 2011 which, particularly in view of the ECJ’s Padawan judgement (see IRIS 2010-10/7), revoked a decision of the Commission « copie privée » (Private Copying Committee), which is responsible for determining the types of equipment and the rates and methods of remuneration for private copying due to rightsholders under Articles 311-1 et seq. of the Intellectual Property Code. The decision had been revoked on the grounds that all equipment...

On 4 November 2011 the first civil chamber of the Court of Cassation delivered an interesting decision on the perimeters of the authorisation given by professionals filmed for the purposes of a documentary. In the case at issue, a number of members of the crime prevention police unit in Nice had agreed to their image being used in a reportbroadcast in which they appear carrying out their duties. Although they had agreed to being filmed and their image was broadcast without being blurred, they nevertheless felt that their privacy had been invaded and deplored the fact that their names and rank had...

The intensity of the sound of commercials has been a recurrent source of complaints from viewers to the audiovisual regulatory body (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) for more than ten years (an average of three complaints each week), and the legislator and the regulatory authority have now taken the matter in hand. Article 177 of Act No. 2010-788 of 12 July 2010, Article 14 of Decree No. 92-280 of 27 March 1992 (as amended), and Article 27 of the Act of 30 September 1986 (as amended) require channels to observe an even volume of sound for both television programmes and commercial breaks,...

In response to the concern expressed frequently by a large number of viewers, the audiovisual regulatory body (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) called on its Committee for considering programme evolution to carry out a considered analysis of reality TV programmes. This was done between February and July 2011, and has resulted in a list of the CSA’s actions in respect of these broadcasts, concluding with the compilation of a number of recommendations, which were made public on 4 October 2011. The CSA stresses the need to reinforce protection for the two categories of people most at risk,...

In accordance with Article 13 of the Act of 30 September 1986, the audiovisual regulatory body (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) notified the President of the Senate and the National Assembly and the leaders of the political groups represented in Parliament at the end of September 2011 of the speaking times for politicians timed during television news, news programmes and other programmes on the major national television channels, news channels and the main news radio stations during the second quarter of 2011. Since July 2009, a new “principle of pluralism”, decreed by the CSA, governs...