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A version of the well-known programme Big Brother, which appeared originally in the Netherlands, has now been adapted in France; it consists of filming, 24 hours a day, the lives of 11 single people enclosed in a loft flat for seventy days. The adaptation, called Loft Story, is unquestionably successful, but it has regular brushes with the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (the audiovisual regulatory authority - CSA). Initially, the CSA made a number of ethical recommendations to the M6 channel that broadcasts the programme, in particular calling on its managers to show the "greatest possible...

On 17 May 2001, Germany and France signed a treaty in Cannes on the provision of support for co-produced films (the so-called “Mini-Treaty”), which entered into force on 23 November 2001 (see IRIS 2004-10:Extra). This was the basis for the establishment of a Franco-German co-production fund, which has an annual budget of EUR three million and to which France and Germany have equal access. Since then, the number of Franco-German co-productions has risen considerably. Whereas between 1994 and 1999 the figure was between one and five films per year, it jumped sharply after the signing of the Mini-Treaty....

The never-ending story of the Bill on the Information Society (see IRIS 1999-8: 4) seems to have moved into a decisive stage this month. After a final round of inter-ministerial arbitration, Christian Pierret, the Secretary of State for Industry, signed an almost definitive version of the text which should be presented in a meeting of the Cabinet in June, after obtaining consultative opinions from the administrative authorities (CSA, CNIL, ART, etc). The purpose of the Bill is more particularly to transpose into French law the Directive of 8 June 2000 on e-commerce; the stated aim of the Bill is...

The Act of 13 March 2000 (see IRIS 2000-3: 12) has now amended the general provisions of the French Civil Code on literal proof by laying down the principle according to which "a document written on an electronic support has the same evidentiary value as a document written on a paper support". Article 1316-4 of the Civil Code contains new provisions on electronic signatures. According to paragraph 2, where a signature is "electronic, it consists of using a reliable identification process guaranteeing its link with the document to which it is attached. The reliability of the process is presumed,...

The concept of the now famous television programme "Big Brother", which first appeared in the Netherlands in September 1999 and has since spawned other programmes in both the United States and Europe, has been taken up in France by the terrestrially-broadcast Hertzian channel M6, which has just launched the programme "Loft Story". This first broadcast by Real TV in France proposes to following in real time the lives of 11 single people (6 young men and 5 young women) who have agree to being filmed twenty-four hours a day for seventy days, corresponding to a period of flat-sharing in a loft. The...