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On 25 May 2011 the Ministers of Culture of Slovenia and France signed an Agreement on Film Co-production in Brussels. The Agreement is an upgrade to the European Convention on Cinematographic Co-productions. Both states are also signatories of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and wish to renew and deepen their co-operation in the field of cinematography and to improve the use of their common cinematographic heritage. The competent institutions are the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC - National Centre of Cinematography)...

Having already committed itself to the digitisation of its cinema theatres (see IRIS 2011-XXX), the French State has now announced the setting up of a wide-ranging system for financing the digitisation of the restoration of its cinematographic heritage. Firstly, on 15 May 2011, as part of the “Investing in the Future” programme (Des Investissements d’Avenir), financed by the national loan initiated by the President of the Republic, the Minister for Culture Frédéric Mitterrand, and the Minister with responsibility for Industry, Energy and the Digital Economy Eric Besson, signed a framework agreement...

The Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) received an application from a television channel on the admissibility of referrals to the pages dedicated to its programmes on a number of social network sites under the regulations on advertising. Indeed happens frequently that a television channel or radio station refers viewers or listeners to the pages devoted to its programmes on a number of social networks including Facebook, or invites them to react on the Twitter social network. In a decision adopted on 12 April but not made public until 27 May, the CSA replied...

The documentary entitled “To Be and To Have” (Etre et Avoir), first shown in 2002 and devoted to a single-class rural school, has not only made a name for itself in French cinema history - it has also contributed to making legal progress! After the courtroom saga between the main character in the film, the teacher Mr Lopez, who denounced “infringement of copyright by the non-authorised exploitation of his rights as an author and performer, as well as infringement of his exclusive rights in respect of his image, his name and his voice”, has taken the matter as far as the court of cassation in order...

In a decision of 17 June 2011, the Conseil d’Etat (Council of State) revoked the application of private copying levies to products acquired for professional purposes. Under Article L. 311-1 of the Intellectual Property Code, which transposes Directive 2001/29/EC, the authors, performers and producers of works fixed on phonograms or videograms are entitled to compensation for the reproduction of their works for private copying purposes. Authors and producers of works fixed on any other media for their reproduction for private copying purposes on a digital recording device are also entitled to the...