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Following the decision by the channel TF1 to broadcast the film Titanic in two parts on 19 and 20 November 2002, the ARP (association of authors, producers and directors) submitted an urgent application to suspend the execution of the decision of the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) to allow the broadcast (see IRIS 2002-­1: 7). The application was rejected by the President of the Litigation Division of the Conseil d'Etat. The ARP, the association of film directors (SRF) and the association of authors and film-makers (SACD) had also submitted to the Conseil...

The decision issued by the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) on 15 November 2001, classifying the televised reality show Popstars, broadcast on M6, as an audiovisual work provoked strong reactions from the main professional organisations, including collective management companies (see IRIS 2002-­1: 8). Following this decision, the Etats généraux de la création audiovisuelle, an organisation representing several copyright collecting companies, appealed to the Conseil d'Etat against the decision on the grounds that the CSA exceeded its powers. The Conseil d'Etat...

On 22 July 2003, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) published its opinion on the two draft decrees amending Article 8 of the Decree of 27 March 1992. The latter decree in particular prohibits television advertising for the following products and economic sectors: literary publishing, cinema, press and large-scale distribution. Both draft decrees were written in response to the European Commission's order, issued on 7 May 2002, that France should repeal these provisions (see IRIS 2002-­9: 10). In its opinion, the CSA analyses the government's proposals for...

On 28 May the CSA delivered its opinion on the draft electronic communications bill (see IRIS 2003-5: 15 and IRIS 2003-6: 9), the purpose of which is to transpose the "telecoms package" into French law. The opinion is in eight sections which, on the whole, follow the order of the text, and cover the amendments made to the Post and Telecommunications Code, the scope of the CSA, authorisations for terrestrially broadcast television, the status of TDF (Télédiffusion de France), radio and television services other than those broadcast terrestrially, service distributors, measures to combat concentration,...

Each year the question of the audio-visual licence fee comes up for public debate. Although the Government at one time was considering abolishing this indirect tax which, together with advertising, constitutes the main source of income for the public audio-visual sector, it is currently looking into ways of improving its yield so as to increase the two billion euros it produces. The financial requirements of the public audio-visual sector in 2004 could in fact require an increase in the 3% allocation. The MP Patrice Martin-Lalande has been entrusted with a "mission of evaluation and control" (MEC)...