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In a communication on policy in favour of the cinema presented on 30 April 2003, the Minister for Culture and Communication, Mr Jean-Jacques Aillagon, pointed out that the system for funding cinema was showing signs of fragility, and that it was necessary to make changes in the system. This has now been done, with the adoption of a tax credit system for cinema as part of the 2004 budget on 30 December 2003. Implementing regulations dated 7 January 2004 lay down the way in which the measure is to be implemented. The new system is a response to the recurrent concerns of professionals in the sector....

On 12 November the Minister for Culture, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, presented the Bill for transposing the Directive of 22 May 2001 on copyright and related rights in the information society (see IRIS 2001­5: 3). The text introduces two new exceptions to copyright under French law. Firstly, in accordance with Article 5(1) of the Directive, the Bill institutes an exception to the reproduction right in respect of certain ephemeral technical acts of reproduction, particularly those related to transmissions using the Internet, such as certain categories of mask copies on the servers of access providers...

In the course of the public examination of Article 20 of the draft Budget for 2004 covering the audiovisual licence fee, the Senate adopted the budget for communication during the night of 28-29 November. At the request of the Minister for Culture and Communications, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, the Senators carried out a new distribution of audiovisual credits taking into account the additional revenue expected from licence fees. Following the rejection by the Members of Parliament on the National Assembly's Finance Committee of the original proposal to combat evasion of payment of the fee by cross-checking...

On 13 October, the Court of Appeal in Versailles delivered a decision on application of Article 22724 of the Criminal Code. Under this article, the fact of either making, carrying or broadcasting by any means and on any support a message of a violent or pornographic nature or such as to seriously infringe human dignity, or commercialising such a message, is punishable by a three year prison sentence and a fine of 75 000 euros if the message is likely to be seen or noticed by a minor. In this instance, a case was brought against a teacher of French for having shown to a class in the fourth year...

In view of the increasing quantity of music and films downloaded and pirated using the Internet, the majors are increasingly including anti-copy systems in the CDs they put on sale. Four court cases have been brought in France against this practice. Consumer associations consider that these protected CDs totally prevent copying, which contradicts the French exception to private copyright included in Article L.122-5 of the Intellectual Property Code. Two decisions have already been delivered in these cases by the regional court of Nanterre. In both cases the problem was the same. The applicants...