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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...

Faced with the proliferation of radio and television broadcasting services on the Internet, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA - official audiovisual monitoring body) is initiating a large-scale international forum on the crucial subject of the regulation of these services. The purpose is to make serious progress in regard to three major points: Does the Internet make it necessary to reconsider the legal framework for audiovisual communication? How should areas of responsibility be constituted? Are the independent regulatory bodies justified in participating in the regulation of audiovisual...

In 1982, the creation of an audiovisual regulatory body responded to a political motive, whereas in 1990 questions were being asked about the raison d'être of such a regulatory function. And yet the CSA (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel - official audiovisual regulatory body), the successor to the Haute autorité de la communication audiovisuelle (19821986) and the Commission nationale de la communication et des libertés (19861989), has survived, and has reached its tenth birthday. The composition of the CSA is no longer contested, although the designation of its members remains political. One-third...

The principle of the honesty of information referred to in Article 2 of the Freedom of Communication Act of 30 September 1986 requires that television viewers should be given correct information and that procedures likely to mislead them should not be used. This principle is taken up in the terms and conditions of the public-sector channels, which are required to "refrain from using procedures likely to be affect the provision of correct information to the viewer". Under their agreement with the CSA ( Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuelofficial audiovisual regulatory body), the private-sector channels...

The Court of Appeal in Paris recently delivered its decision in the dispute between a well-known model and an Internet service provider. The provider had allowed one of the web sites it hosts to show nude photographs of the model. Maintaining that publication of the photographs infringed her right of personal portrayal and her right to personal privacy, the model had applied to the urgent applications judge, whose powers include putting a stop to a manifestly unlawful nuisance. In his order of 9 June 1998, this judge found that the matter of liability on the part of the access provider or host...