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The CSA ( Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel - audiovisual regulatory body) has given its opinion on the second part of the bill to reform the audiovisual area which supplements the text amending the organisation and financing of the public-sector audiovisual area adopted by the Conseil des Ministres last November (see Iris 1998-10: 13). The CSA stresses that «the second part of the bill to reform the audiovisual area deals with a number of serious shortcomings in existing legislation, particularly as regards broadcasting by satellite, and permits the transposition into French law of a number of...

Reconciling rights is always a difficult matter. This is true for labour law as well as for copyright, particularly with Internet. Journalists are the employees of a press company (or audiovisual communication company), but they are also authors of works, generally considered to be collective. Should the press company require journalists to give further authorisation in order to be able to put on-line articles which have already been published in the newspaper? The matter can be settled contractually. This is being explored very carefully in France, and a few agreements have already been reached,...

The Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA - official audiovisual monitoring body) recently celebrated its tenth anniversary; a number of other countries have modelled their own systems of audiovisual regulation on the CSA. Taking a look at all the activities at the CSA in the course of a month gives a good idea of what regulation is all about. Radio is a very important field. In February 1999, the CSA adopted more than 40 decisions on this sector, ranging from calling for applicants and issuing and renewing authorizations for broadcasting frequencies to appointing members of the radiophonic...

The amended decree of 17 January 1990 fixed the amount which the terrestrial channels broadcasting unencrypted must devote to the production of cinematographic works originally made in the French language at 3 % of their net turnover in the previous financial year. This contribution may only be made through a subsidiary whose exclusive company object is cinematographic production. The contribution may not exceed half the total cost of the production, nor may more than half of it be made up of investment in the production by the subsidiary. Decree no. 99-189 of 11 March 1999 has now strengthened...

The reform of the funding mechanisms for the cinematographic industry, announced some months ago, has now come about with the publication of the Decree of 24 February 1999. Previously, these procedures were governed by texts dating from 1959 which had been amended so often that they had become barely legible and scarcely coherent. The reform clarifies both the shape and content of financial support for the cinema. This is aimed not only at the production of full-length or short films and their distribution and broadcasting, but also at encouraging the promotion of the French cinema in France and...