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The Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA), meeting in plenary assembly on 7 December 2010, fined France Télévisions EUR 100 000, to be paid into the fund to support audiovisual and cinematographic production, for France 2 failing to observe the rules of ethical conduct in the provision of information. On 1 October 2009, in its lunchtime news programme, the channel broadcast an item on subsequent offences by sex offenders during which a named child was twice wrongly presented as having died in an attack. The public service channel had already received formal notice...

The original nature of the screenplays for two successful French films has recently been contested in court. The first was the screenplay for “Outlaws” (original title “Hors la Loi”), a film by Rachid Bouchareb presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, which relates the involvement of Algerians living in France in the war of independence through three brothers who adopt the different attitudes of Algerians. The co-writers of another screenplay, entitled “Sparring Partners”, called for a ban on showing the film and claimed damages to compensate for the prejudice they felt they had suffered...

With two decisions delivered on 30 December 2010, the Conseil d’Etat rejected the requests made by M6 for the cancellation of the decisions adopted by the Autorité de la Concurrence (competition authority) and the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) authorising the acquisition by TF1 of the entire capital of the AB Group, in order to gain control of the terrestrially broadcast digital channels TMC and NT1. On 16 January 2010, the competition authority had validated this concentration operation, on condition that the parties made a number of undertakings, required...

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...