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In a decision on 11 February 2010 the Conseil d’Etat cancelled the letter from the Minister for Culture and Communication of 15 December 2008 calling on the Chairman of France Télévisions to stop marketing advertising space on the group’s channels between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. “in accordance with both the spirit and the letter of the legislative reform in hand”. The letter was issued at a time when the bill on reforming the audiovisual sector, directed mainly at abolishing advertising on public service television, was pending: the Act had only passed through the National Assembly on its first reading,...

The “Creation and the Internet” mission, chaired by Mr Zelnik, COE of the ‘Naïve’ music label, aimed at improving the legal offer on-line, reported back to the Minister for Culture (see IRIS 2010-1: 1/23) on 6 January 2010. The purpose of this cooperation with the professionals in the sector is to respond to the demand for financing the cultural industries, reaching beyond the educational and repressive aspects of the ‘HADOPI’ legislation. After hearing from about a hundred professionals in the sector, the report’s signatories say they are convinced that the method adopted until now by the Government,...

The issue of the numbering of channels in the programmes offered by service distributors is keeping the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) on its toes. It will be remembered that the CSA received fourteen applications from new digital terrestrial television (DTT) channels in 2006 for the settlement of differences concerning their numbering on cable and satellite distribution networks. In the light of these disputes, the CSA had adopted on 24 July 2007 a deliberation defining the general rules on the matter (see IRIS 2007-7: 13), which was incorporated in Article...

The Conseil d’Etat has issued a pronouncement on the legality of the decision by the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) in July 2007 to approve the application for a change of name submitted by the Lagardère Group, further to concluding a licence agreement with the holder of the Virgin brand name, to re-name its Europe 2 radio station Virgin Radio and its Europe 2 TV DDT television channel Virgin 17 (see IRIS 2007-8: extra). The radio station’s competitors called for the cancellation of both the authorisations for the services issued by the CSA on the grounds...

The Court of Cassation has just delivered an eagerly awaited and noteworthy decision, pronouncing for the first time on the matter of the qualification - and hence the corresponding scheme of liability - of a service “hosting” personal websites on the Internet. The dispute was one of infringement of copyright, initiated by two famous strip cartoon editors against the company Tiscali (Telecom Italia), when they discovered that the entire adventures of Lucky Luke and Blake & Mortimer were being reproduced on personal websites operated by the IAP in question. Since the case originated before Directive...