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At long last the repressive part of the HADOPI legislation has now been finalised. The arrangements, set up by the Act of 12 June 2009 and supplemented by the Act of 28 October 2009, attempt to combat the illegal downloading of works by introducing ‘a graduated response”. The first stage is in the hands of the HADOPI, an independent administrative authority with responsibility for sending warning messages to Internet users using peer-to-peer systems whose IP addresses have been collected by the authorised rights management societies. For the second stage, the Constitutional Court censured the HADOPI’s...

“Miracle at St Anna”, the film by Spike Lee first shown in the USA in September 2008, has not had an international career, and for good reason. In October 2007 the production company On My Own had granted TF1 International the exclusive right to exploit and distribute the film worldwide except in the USA, Canada and Italy. In return, TF1 International undertook to pay it an advance of USD 11 million: 5% to be paid at the time of signing the agreement (“deal memo”) and 95% on acceptance of delivery of all the film material. One year later, however, as the film - which tells the story of four black...

On 19 July 2011 the European Commission sent requests for information in the form of letters of formal notice, the first step in the process of an EU infringement procedure, to 20 EU member states. The member states in question, namely Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain, have not yet notified to the Commission measures to implement the new EU Telecoms Package, formally adopted after two years of heated negotiations at the end of 2009...

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...