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On 15 June 2010, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) released its latest reports on France, Georgia, Poland and “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” (fYROM), adopted in the fourth round of its monitoring of the laws, policies and practices to combat racism in the Member States of the Council of Europe (for commentary on earlier reports, see IRIS 2010-4: 1/3, IRIS 2009-10: 0/109, IRIS 2009-8: 5/4, IRIS 2009-5: 4/4, IRIS 2008-4: 6/5, IRIS 2006-6: 4/4 and IRIS 2005-7: 3/2). The main recommendations dealing with the (audiovisual) media and/or the Internet in these reports...

The group M6 operates the free catch-up TV services M6 Replay and W9 Replay, which can be accessed on dedicated Internet sites. The services allow on-demand viewing of certain programmes after they have been shown on the two channels without the possibility of recording them. Having noted that a company edited two sites that listed and made available to the public all the audiovisual programmes available as catch-up TV, including those of M6 and W9, using deep hyperlinks, the group had the company summoned on the grounds of violation of the general conditions for using the M6 Replay and W9 Replay...

Since 1 March 2010, anyone under the jurisdiction of a court may claim in proceedings before a court, either administrative or judicial, “that a legislative provision infringes the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution” - this is the prior questioning of constitutionality. Thus Canal+, in support of its application to the Conseil d’Etat for the cancellation of a decision by the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) in March 2010 ordering it to broadcast a communiqué (see IRIS 2010-4: 1/22), called for a referral to the Constitutional Council on the...

On 17 December 2009 the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) called on Canal+ Distribution to change the numbering of the terrestrially broadcast television channels NRJ 12 and BFM TV in the offer of its Canal Sat package, in response to the channels’ desire to be given the place numbering they have for digital broadcasting, i.e. 12 for NRJ 12 and 15 for BFM TV, whereas they were numbered 36 and 55 respectively in the package. Canal Sat then appealed to the Conseil d’Etat for the decision to be cancelled (see IRIS 2010-2: 1/18). In a decision delivered on 9 July...

The Court of Cassation has found in favour of Orange (a subsidiary of France Télécom) in its dispute with its competitors SFR and Free, which claimed it was making access to its sport channel Orange Sports dependent on subscription to its triple-play offer (television, Internet and telephone) (see IRIS 2009-6: 12/19). The applicants claimed that the two-fold exclusivity for distributing and broadcasting exclusive audiovisual programmes constituted joint selling, which is prohibited by Article L 122-1 of the French Consumer Code, and hence was an act of unfair competition on the part of Orange....