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Canal Plus, set up in 1984, is a television channel with special links with the film industry. Under the terms of an agreement reached on 1 June 1995 with the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (government radio and television supervisory authority), it is authorised to broadcast 365 films per year between noon and midnight and 120 films between midnight and noon. It would be tempting to a channel like Canal Plus to invest in film production either directly or through a subsidiary (in this case a company called "Studio"). A commercial strategy of this kind would be a serious blow to independent...

In two decisions dated 7 May 1997 and 24 May 1997, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA) looked ahead to the parliamentary elections scheduled for 25 May and 1 June 1997, and told national broadcasting companies what kinds of programme they might schedule and broadcast, how long those programmes might be, and when they might be broadcast and repeated. The second CSA decision stated, for example: "On France 2 and France 3, the short programmes shall be scheduled simultaneously at 7 a.m. They shall be repeated on both channels the same day, and again simultaneously immediately after the 8...

Decree No 97-449 of 29 April 1997 states that decisions on advances are to be taken by the Director General of the National Cinematographic Centre (Centre national de la cinématographie - CNC), after consultation with the "Committee on Selective Financial Aid for Production" (Commission du soutien financier sélectif à la production), whose members are chosen for their artistic, technical and financial expertise. Advances for completed films are made, up to a set limit, on presentation of a distribution contract covering cinema showings. When advances are made for film projects, the Director General...

After much discussion of doctrine, it would appear that judges are now to be responsible for the tricky task of deciding on the terms of application of copyright on Internet in France. To recap, it was first decided on 14 August 1996 in a widely-covered case on infringement of musical copyright that copyright applied on networks. In the present case, the commercial court judge, also deliberating in an urgent matter, prohibits and penalises the unauthorised reproduction and representation on an Internet site of a computer programme protected by copyright. The present decision becomes particularly...

The Act of 27 March 1997 transposes into French legislation Council Directive 93/83/EEC of 27 September 1993 on the co-ordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission and Council Directive 93/98/EEC of 29 October 1993 harmonizing the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights (the "Duration Directive"). The Act covers firstly the broadcasting by satellite and retransmission by cable. It renders subject to the Intellectual Property Code the broadcasting of a work towards a satellite from...