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On 27 April 2011 the court of appeal in Paris rejected the appeal brought by the M6 group against the company operating the TV-replay.fr site, an online guide to catch-up TV sites that offers summaries and links to the programmes of most of the major French channels that are available as catch-up TV. In doing so, the court upheld the judgment delivered in the initial proceedings (see IRIS 2010-8/29). The television group, which operates the channels M6 and W9 together with their catch-up TV services M6replay and W9replay, complained more particularly that TV-replay.fr was providing direct access...

As part of its duty to protect children and young people, conferred on it by Article 15 of the Act of 30 September 1986, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) ensures not only the protection of young viewers but also the protection of minors taking part in television programmes. On 17 April 2007 it therefore adopted a deliberation on the participation of persons under the age of 18 in television programmes other than works of fiction (see IRIS 2007-6/17). This text reaffirms the need for young people to be able to express their opinions, and requires editors...

France Télévisions has asked the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) to look into the regulations on product placement in audiovisual fiction programmes, and more particularly the inclusion of advertising posters (virtual or real) on the sets for series and TV films. Since the decision adopted by the CSA on 16 February 2010 in application of Article 14-1 of the Act of 5 March 2009 transposing the AVMS Directive (see IRIS 2010-4/23) into national legislation, product placement has been authorised in France “in cinematographic works, audiovisual fiction works and...

The “Web COSIP” Decree, announced last October by the Minister for Culture who wanted to see it in place by 1 January 2011 and awaited since then by the profession, was finally gazetted on 3 April 2011. The text, which is applicable immediately, extends the benefit of financial support to audiovisual production (“COSIP”) other than works intended for television. It supplements the existing CNC support arrangements of selective support in favour of projects for the new media, which has been in existence since 2007, and selective and automatic for audiovisual works using “mixed” financing (TV and...

The commercial court in Paris has delivered an important judgment in a dispute between the famous production company Endemol, the exclusive international distributor for the format of the “Big Brother” broadcast and its various adaptations (in France, the programmes “Loft-Story” and “Secret Story”), and the company ALJ Productions, founded by a former Endemol employee. Endemol claimed that “Dilemme”, produced by ALJ and broadcast on the W9 DTV channel, used the features characteristic of its own formats and programmes, and that its broadcasting constituted unfair parasitic competition. The court...