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In April 2007 the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory authority - CSA) called for a charter to set the framework for the participation of minors in television broadcasts (see IRIS 2007-6: 11). A charter has now been drawn up, and the CSA published the text on 22 January 2009. It applies to broadcasts other than cinematographic and audiovisual works of fiction, and will be appended to the authorisations signed by those in parental authority. As the CSA recalls, “in order to take into account the particular sensitivity and vulnerability of minors and to respect the child’s...

It will be remembered that just a year ago a surprising judgment was handed down by the court of appeal in Paris in a dispute between participants in the tele-reality programme called L’Ile de la Tentation and the programme’s producer. By upholding the candidates’ claims (and awarding each of them EUR 27,000 in compensation in passing), the court stated clearly that the contract between the production company and the participants had all the features of an employment contract, such that the rules governing irregular breaking of the contract also applied (see IRIS 2008-4: 13). Note should therefore...

The court of appeal in Amiens has just delivered an interesting order on a delicate point of law. The facts were as follows: after four days of debate before the criminal court of the Somme, when the judge and jury had withdrawn to deliberate, a journalist covering the case for a television channel noticed that the deliberation room was reflected in the glass building opposite. The journalist in question took the initiative of filming this reflection, thereby making it possible to view the deliberation process (which is theoretically secret) and more particularly two members of the jury voting...

The bill - examined at length and copiously amended at its first reading in the National Assembly and the Senate - passed through the joint mixed committee at the end of January. As a result of this examination, provided for in the urgent procedure adopted by the Government for passing the Act, the bill was ratified in the form it was submitted to the global vote of each assembly in the course of the following days. The package was finally adopted on 4 February 2009. Two types of appeal have already been lodged against the texts adopted. Firstly, opposition members of the Senate have called on...

The bills for reforming the public-sector audiovisual scene have provoked stormy discussions in the National Assembly. Being fewer in number, the opposition MPs firmly opposed to the bill as prepared and drafted by the parliamentary majority had no choice but to table hundreds of amendments in order to delay voting, hoping thereby to cause the reform to fail. In view of the delay caused by examination of the bill in the National Assembly, the Government made the surprising decision not to wait for Parliament’s vote before applying the key measure in the reform - the abolition of advertising. The...