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In 1992, in accordance with the terms of a code of good conduct drawn up by the CSA (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel ­ audiovisual regulatory body) provisions were integrated into the Act of 16 July 1984 with a view to better reconciling the public's right to information and the television channels' exclusive holding of rights to broadcast sport events. Thus Article 18-2 of the amended Act provides that the vendor or acquirer of the right to exploit a sports event may not oppose the broadcasting by other audiovisual communication services of brief extracts taken free of charge from the images...

Is the film The Fifth Element a victim of its own success? Apparently, as illustrated by a recent ruling by the Regional Court in Paris in a case the producer and director of a film brought against the cell phone company SFR and the advertising agency Publicis on the grounds of infringement of copyright and parasitic use. Luc Besson and the company Gaumont claimed that, in a major advertising campaign for a new service offered by the phone operator, the defendants had presented the actress who starred in the film, Mila Jovovich, in the appearance and costume of the main character in the film, placing...

The Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) is facing difficulties concerning the channels in countries outside the European Community broadcasting on Eutelsat, of which more than 150, despite theoretically being subject to French authority, are broadcast without being approved either in France or in any other country of the European Union. The CSA cannot sanction them or take proceedings against the satellite operators or the bodies that allocate space on the satellite broadcasting these channels. Thus on 13 January, the CSA applied to the office of the Public Prosecutor...

According to Article 15 of the Act of 30 September 1986 (as amended), the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) guarantees the protection of children and young people and ensures that programmes likely to be damaging to the physical, mental or moral development of minors are not made available to the public by a sound broadcasting service unless it is assured, because of the broadcasting time chosen, that minors would not normally be likely to hear them. Under this Article, the CSA adopted a deliberation on 10 February prohibiting any sound broadcasting service...

Under Article 1 of the Act of 30 September 1986 (as amended), the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) is authorised to make recommendations to the editors and distributors of audiovisual communications services regarding compliance with the principles set out in the Act. On the basis of this, having observed that a number of television channels were increasingly promoting the calling of surcharged telephone services or telematic services that could not be classified as advertising, particularly in order to take part in games, to vote or to contribute to a programme,...