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As the guarantor, under Article 15 of the Act of 30 September 1986, of the protection of children and young people on television, the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) adopted, on 17 April, a deliberation concerning the participation of minors in television broadcasts. Expanding upon the undertakings contained in the agreements between the CSA and the channels, the purpose of this deliberation is to set out in detail the arrangements required of all French television services in order to “preserve the physical, mental and moral development of young participants”,...

The Act of 6 August 2004 amended the “Information Technology and Freedom” Act of 6 January 1978, which regulates the processing of personal data in France, with the addition of an Article 9-4 giving bodies that collect and manage royalties and neighbouring rights and bodies that defend the profession the possibility of implementing “the processing of personal data concerning unlawful action (…)”. The text was referred to the Constitutional Council, who validated the new provision, which was “aimed at combating piracy practices that are developing on the Internet network”. Carrying out data processing...

The European Commission authorised the grant of an aid of EUR 37.6 million by the French Agence de l’innovation industrielle (Agency for Industrial Innovation) towards the Télévision Mobile Sans Limite (Unlimited Mobile Television) R&D project. The project is being carried out by a group of French public research bodies and companies, headed by Alcatel-Lucent’s subsidiary in France. The project aims to develop a new mobile TV broadcasting technology combining satellite and terrestrial networks, to be launched in 2009. Such technology is expected to improve the current reception quality, the number...

The new Regulatory Authority on technical protection measures ( Autorité de régulation des mesures techniques de protection - ARMTP) created by the Act on copyright and neighbouring rights in the information society (the “DADVSI” Act) of 1 August 2006 (see IRIS 2006-8: 13 and IRIS 2006-7: 11), was launched by the Minister for Culture on 6 April 2007. The decree on the functioning of this new independent administrative authority (submission of cases, investigation of applications, powers, means of appeal, etc.), which is composed of six members appointed by decree for a period of six years, was...

In the same week in which the setting up of a new regulatory authority on technical protection measures took place (see below), the court of appeal in Paris, deliberating on appeal, confirmed the validity of placing an anti-copying protection measure on a DVD (see IRIS 2006-4: 12). In doing so the court reiterated its position on the legality of making a private copy, which “did not constitute a right, but a lawful exception to the principle of prohibiting any total or partial copying of a protected work made without the consent of the copyright holder”. In this case, the applicant, who had bought...