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At the end of 2007, with a view to adapting the regulations to recent developments in the audiovisual sector, the Ministry of Culture and Communication gave Mr Kessler and Mr Richard the task of consulting the sector’s professionals on amending the 2001 “Tasca” Decrees. The Decrees lay down the scheme for contributions from the editors of television services to the development of the production of European and French-language audiovisual works (see IRIS 2007-10: 13 and 2008-2: 12). The proposals that came out of their work made it possible to conclude agreements in November 2008 between the editors...

TF1 International, which is owned by TF1 SA, is involved in the acquisition and distribution of audiovisual rights in France and abroad. UGC Image, a subsidiary of UGC SA, operates in the areas of film production, cinema distribution in France, video publishing and the sale and purchase in France and abroad of rights in the exploitation of cinematographic works. These two companies planned to set up two interdependent joint ventures. The first, called JV1 and operating under the name UGC Distribution, would have distributed cinema films to cinemas in France, while the second, called JV2 and operating...

Owing to the considerable costs incurred by cinema operators, the cinema digitisation process in France is in its infancy. As early as 2007, the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée (National Centre for the Cinema and the Moving Image - CNC) held talks with Germany’s Filmförderungsanstalt (Federal Film Board - FFA) to find ways of subsidising the digitisation of cinemas. In 2009, the CNC came up with the idea of setting up a mutual fund (fonds de mutualisation), and more than half the cinema operators had pre-registered for this fund by 30 November 2009. The aim of the fund, which is...

On 28 September 2009, the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) published its opinion on the TF1 Group’s operation to buy the two free-view digital channels NT1 and TMC, as requested by the Autorité de la Concurrence (competition authority). The operation is in line with the logic of recent developments in the audiovisual sector, which has seen major structural changes since the launch of digital television in March 2005. The new free-view channels, the number of which has increased from seven to eighteen, are competing with the “historic” channels and are attracting...

Can a person filmed using a concealed camera in a television report claim compensation for the prejudice he feels he has suffered because of the infringement of his rights in respect of the use made of his image? That was the question facing the press section of the regional court of Paris. In the case at issue, the spokesperson of a distributor of medicines that was the subject of a documentary on sales of medicines on the Internet, broadcast on France 5, was suing the television channel and the production companies for having infringed his rights in respect of the use made of his image. More...