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In the context of the thorough re-examination of the ethics of advertising and following the recommendation "on the image of the human person" last October, the Bureau de Vérification de la Publicité (Advertisement Board - BVP) - a professional self-regulatory institution involving both advertisers and agencies - presented its new "Child" recommendation on 14 March. The previous recommendation in this area dates back to 1975, and some of its provisions have been supplemented and updated, particularly as regards the provisions concerning decency and dignity, which now go beyond merely preventing...

The commercialisation of broadcasting rights for sports events on radio remains a matter for debate. On 14 March the "Sport Libre" EIG, whose membership includes most French radio stations, and Radio France applied to the Conseil d'État as an urgent matter to have the French national football league prevented from granting exclusivity to any one radio station for the events and competitions it organises, and from making over any rights in this respect, and to maintain the possibility of freely reporting on such events and competitions live on radio. The applicants felt that the matter was urgent...

There is fierce debate at present on the rights for broadcasting football matches on radio. While the French Minister for Sport, Marie-George Buffet, has said that she is opposed to any form of commercialisation or monopoly, on 22 February 2002 the French national football league (LNF) invited applications from radio stations wishing to buy the broadcasting rights for the competitions it organises (national championships in divisions 1 and 2, league cup). The radio station RMC Info has acquired exclusive coverage of the World Cup by an agreement reached with the Kirch Group. For many of those involved...

The Court of Appeal in Versailles and the Court of Cassation have in turn reached decisions on the very difficult question of the scope of the legal licence instituted by Article L. 214-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code (CPI). The first case was brought by the phonogram producer Universal Music against the television channel TF1; the complaint was that, without authorisation from the producer, TF1 used a number of phonograms as background music for the trailers for a television film and a variety programme. The case brought before the Court of Cassation was similar; the phonogram producer...

Before the latest Costa-Gavras film came out in France on 27 February, there was a good deal of fuss about the poster advertising the film. The poster represents a full-size red Catholic cross on a black background extended to merge with a swastika, with photographs of a priest and a German officer on either side and the title of the film"Amen" - in the centre. Considering that such a poster constituted defamation in respect of a group of persons by reason of their belonging to a specific religion, the association Alliance Générale contre le Racisme et pour le Respect de l'Identité Française et...