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A month after signing an agreement with SACEM (see IRIS 2010-10/32), YouTube has now done the same with three other collective management societies - SACD (Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques), SCAM (Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia), and ADAGP (Société des Auteurs dans les Arts Graphiques et Plastiques). These societies represent a wide range of authors, creators, screenwriters and directors of fiction works and documentaries, visual artists, architects, writers, playwrights, etc., to whom YouTube will pay a fee when distributors and producers use their work on the platform. Google’s...

The arrival of the Internet on the television screen has been a source of much debate for some months already. In the United States, Google has launched a Google TV box and has joined forces with Sony for connecting it directly to television sets. Similarly, Apple TV - hosted in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg - offers exclusive access to films and series distributed on iTunes, while Eurosport is working with Panasonic to broadcast sports events on catch-up TV. At present the television channels obtain authorisation to broadcast from the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory...

The Act of 5 March 2009 provides for the total abolition of advertising on public-sector television channels starting on 30 November 2011, the final date for switching from analog to digital television. And yet the Government announced in September 2010 that it was setting up a two-year moratorium, until January 2014, before abolition (see IRIS 2010-9/25). This was incorporated in the draft national budget for 2011, which was only adopted after a number of twists and turns. On 17 November 2010 the National Assembly voted in favour of the definitive maintenance of daytime advertising on France Télévisions’...

It has taken the Government a few weeks to revise its text after receiving a negative opinion from the CSA on 27 September on its draft decree on audiovisual media services (AVMSD) (see IRIS 2010-10/31). The Decree, incorporating a number of the suggestions made by the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA), was published in the Journal Officiel on 14 November 2010. Adopted in application of the Act of 5 March 2009 transposing the AVMS Directive into French law, the Decree lays down three sets of rules: the arrangements for the scheme for AVMS contributing to the...

After four years of discussion, the SACEM and the on-line video site YouTube have announced the signature of an agreement, made public on 30 September 2010. This is the first agreement the site has reached with a French royalties society. The SACEM is a collective management society whose purpose is to represent and defend the interests of writers, writer-producers, comedians, composers and editors of music with a view to promoting musical creation. Its main task is to collect royalties and to redistribute them to the beneficiaries of the works that have been played or reproduced. Under this agreement,...