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Under the terms of Article 15 of the Act of 30 September 1986 (amended), the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory authority in France - CSA) is responsible for ensuring that children and young people are not shown television programmes that could be damaging for their development. At its plenary assembly on 20 December 2005, the CSA adopted a recommendation on television broadcasting of certain types of extremely violent fighting contests. In addition to the principles of dignity of the human person and maintenance of public order mentioned in the 1986 Act, the CSA text also...

After three days of stormy debate in the National Assembly, the parliamentary debate on the bill transposing the Directive on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights in the Information Society into national legislation was suspended because of the parliamentary recess. In a surprise vote (by 30 votes to 28), the MPs adopted two identical amendments tabled by the UMP and PS political parties that would assimilate to private copying the downloading, for non-commercial purposes, of works from the Internet, in return for a lump-sum payment in remuneration, opening the way for the creation of a legal licence....

In 1996, the French newspaper Libération published an article focusing on a murder case in which adolescents were involved. The criminal investigation was still pending when the article was published and two suspects, a young man, B. and his girlfriend, A., had been under investigation. The article in Libération, written by Patricia Tourancheau, reproduced extracts from statements made by A. to the police and the investigating judge, and comments from B. contained in the case file. On the basis of section 38 of the Freedom of Press Act of 29 July 1881, criminal proceedings were brought...

The stated purpose of Act No. 2006-64 of 23 January 2006 on combating terrorism and making certain provisions concerning security and controls at frontiers is to provide better assurance of the right to safety while respecting freedoms. It points to the threat posed by information and communication technologies as new channels for expression for terrorists. While voting on this, MPs took the opportunity of “tidying up” France’s Audiovisual Act of 30 September 1986 and amending its Article 33-1 to remove the obligation for non-European channels broadcast via Eutelsat - and in consequence governed...

After extensive consideration of the matter on the part of the Parliament, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture and Communication, and the public- and private sector operators in the audiovisual sector, the signing on 29 November of an agreement by the Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, TF1 and France Télévisions should make it possible to create a French international news channel (Chaîne Française d'Information Internationale - CFII) by the end of 2006. A joint company held equally by France Télévisions and TF1 will be created, governed by a “shareholders' pact” and articles...