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In two notable decisions, the Court of Cassation has now clearly stated that the installation by a syndicate of co-owners of a collective aerial in a residential building constitutes an act of exploiting protected works separate from their broadcasting and as such gives rise to the payment of royalties. The disputes arose between a syndicate of co-owners of a block of flats and various societies for the collective management of rights (SACEM, SCAM, SACD, ADAGP and ANGOA) whose catalogues included the works being circulated. The syndicate of co-owners felt that by installing the collective aerial...

In a decision on 10 February 2005, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) served formal notice on Eutelsat, the satellite telecom network on which the Iranian channel Sahar 1 is carried, to stop broadcasting the channel within one month. The channel had not concluded an agreement with the CSA and had broadcast programmes that were manifestly anti-Semitic (see IRIS 2005-2: 12). Eutelsat made an urgent application to the Conseil d'Etat for enforcement of the decision to be suspended on the grounds that the Act of 30 September 1986 on freedom of communication, as...

Faced with the multiplication of English terms on radio and television, the CSA (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel - audiovisual regulatory body) adopted on 18 January a recommendation recalling the legal and contractual provisions to which service editors are subject in this respect. Introduced by Article 12 of the Act of 4 August 1994 on use of the French language, Article 20-1 of the Act of 30 September 1986 lays down the principle according to which the use of French is compulsory for all broadcasts and advertising by radio or television bodies and services. This obligation is also taken up...

With just a few weeks to go before its launch - scheduled for 31 March for the non-pay channels - terrestrially-broadcast digital television is not really looking ready to make its appearance on the French audiovisual scene. On 20 October, the Conseil d'État cancelled six of the twenty-three authorisations the CSA (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel - audiovisual regulatory body) had issued to editors of television services intended for terrestrial broadcasting in digital mode (see IRIS 2004-10: 10), which meant it had to start a new call for applications to use the remaining frequencies on 14...

In continuation of the case of Al Manar TV (see IRIS 2005-1: 12), the CSA (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel - audiovisual regulatory body) served formal notice on 10 February on the satellite operator Eutelsat to stop broadcasting the television service Sahar 1. The channel is edited by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Company, which is established in Iran; it is not subject to any type of control by another European Union Member State and is broadcast by Eutelsat without being covered by any agreement with the CSA, in violation of Articles 33-1, 43-2 and 43-4 of the Act of 30 September...