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On 23 November 2007 rightsholders of the audiovisual, cinema and music sectors, Internet access providers (IAPs) and the public authorities signed an agreement on cultural works and on combating piracy on the Internet. The agreement is the end result of the mission entrusted by Nicolas Sarkozy to Denis Olivennes last September (see IRIS 2007-9: 14 and IRIS 2007-10: 14), bringing together, for the first time, 42 bodies and companies agreeing on a number of joint proposals, and has been described by the Minister for Culture as “historic”. According to the terms of the agreement, the public authorities...

Although the right of reply “for any person named or designated in an online communication service” was instituted by Article 6 IV of the Act on Trust in the Digital Economy of 21 June 2004, the method for its application needed to be set out in a decree. This has only been adopted on 24 October 2007. The text begins by defining the method whereby people can request to exercise their right of reply. Thus it is necessary for the applicant to indicate the references of the message, the conditions for public access to the online communication service, and - if it is mentioned - the name of the originator....

On 12 October 2007, Denis Olivennes, who has been in charge of a mission “to combat illegal downloading” since 5 September 2007 (see IRIS 2007-9: 14), submitted a progress report to the Minister for Culture. The members of the mission have interviewed representatives of economic beneficiaries, Internet access providers (IPs), consumers and distributors of content, and all have confirmed their desire to achieve a common solution that would make it possible to both prevent piracy, and further develop the level of offer of lawful content. More specifically, the positions set out during these talks...

On 8 October 2007, the French Minister for Culture, Christine Albanel, took advantage of the MIPCOM international programmes market in Cannes to announce "the updating and amendment of the framework of regulations set up in 1986", which will be combined with "measures to ensure better quality". She said that the future of French fiction lay in a rapidly changing context, and that this called for new resources and tools to better stimulate the revival of the programme industry in France. The launch of three complementary expertises were announced. The first covers the definition of the "economic...

The current conflict between Canal+ and Neuf Cegetel highlights the sometimes tense relationship that exists between owners of encrypted channels and Internet access providers (IPs) concerning television broadcast over ADSL. On the one hand, the IPs would like to be able to market channels in the capacity of a digital television services distributor as they see fit. On the other hand, companies such as Canal+, a satellite television group that has a quasi-monopoly in the market for pay television, wish to retain their exclusivity for broadcasting their channels. It is in this context that, in a...