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On 13 November last year, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (official regulatory body - CSA) authorised the channel TF1 to broadcast the film Titanic in two parts on two consecutive evenings the following week. Because of the imminence of the broadcast, ARP, the authors, directors and producers group, submitted to the Conseil d'Etat firstly an application in an urgent matter to suspend the execution of the CSA's authorisation, and secondly an application on the merits of the case to have the authorisation cancelled on the grounds of the CSA exceeding its powers. Since 1 January 2001, administrative...

The commercial court in Paris found the Internet site Keljob guilty last December of the unlawful use of hypertext links (see IRIS 2001-2: 12). Keljob, a free browser for jobseekers, lists offers presented on other sites, and has again been involved in a dispute raised by one of these sites. On 5 September the Regional Court of Paris ordered it to pay a million French francs in damages to the employment advertisement site Cadremploi for having made use of the offers it listed without its agreement. Firstly, the plaintiff company felt that the Keljob site, by reproducing the Cadremploi name in...

During the Mipcom fair held in Cannes at the beginning of October, the Franco-German cultural broadcaster ARTE announced that it would in future be making joint productions with the BBC. An increasing number of co-productions will be made in the next few years, particularly documentaries on cultural, artistic and social themes. As a result, the ARTE network, which unites various European public broadcasters through association and co-operation agreements, now includes an English-language representative.

With a covering letter dated 31 July 2001, the Minister for Culture and Communication sent to the CSA (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel - official regulatory body) the draft of a decree concerning television channels broadcasting terrestrially in digital mode. After gathering comments from the main parties concerned, the CSA met in plenary session on 2 October 2001 and delivered its opinion on the draft. The opinion starts by making general remarks. The CSA wishes to see the increase in the obligations spread out over a longer period than the five years proposed by the Government. It feels in...

The company Télévision française 1 (TF1) signed a new agreement with the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (French audiovisual regulatory authority - CSA) on 8 October. The agreement - which will come into force on 1 January 2002 and be valid for five years - has been reached at the end of much work and rounds of negotiations and follows on from the renewal of TF1's authorisation last April without calling for applications from any other parties. The new agreement is much more detailed, and has taken into account the wishes expressed by the CSA, particularly regarding ethical practice, and those...