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Musical works with words and often music by Jacques Brel have been digitalised and put on-line on Internet on the initiative of students at the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications and the École Centrale de Paris on the web-pages on the student server at their colleges. On the basis of official reports by sworn agents of the Association pour la Protection des Programmes , the companies Éditions Musicales Pouchenel , Warner Chappell France and MCA Caravelle , which affirm that they hold the rights of reproduction and representation of these works, called on the courts to take note that...

An author who had unsuccessfully put forward an idea for a programme lodged with the SACD (French society of dramatic authors and composers) under the title Pour ou contre ("For or against") on TF1 complained that the presenter Christophe Dechavanne had used elements of his plan in his broadcast Comme un lundi ("Like a Monday"), thereby rendering himself guilty of parasiting him. The Court recalled that acknowledgement of wrongful parasiting within the meaning of Article 1382 of the Civil Code supposed the prior demonstration of the existence of a substance capable of being absorbed, in the form...

During 1996, France proposed to the other Member States of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) a Charter on international co-operation on the Internet. In the framewrok of this proposal, France commissioned the drafting of a code of conduct for the Internet, to be undertaken in close collaboration and concertation with professional users, especially publishers, access providers, industry representatives, IT companies, those involved in electronic commerce, the World Wide Web Consortium, academics, as well as non-profesional users. A working party has been working...

On 29 January 1997, the Paris Appeal Court ( Cour d'appel de Paris) rendered judgement in a case involving the French private broadcasters TF1 and Canal Plus. Canal Plus is in the process of taking over NETHOLD BV. NETHOLD BV exploits a number of thematic television channels. Amongst those are a number of channels which are totally dedicated to sports events: Supersport Belgium, Supersport The Netherlands, Nordic Supersport (for Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) and Télépiù 2. TF1, on the one hand, is involved in the EUROSPORT consortium, which operates a transnational sports channel by the...

Since 18 November 1996, for the protection of minors, it has been obligatory to identify films which contain violent or erotic material. Agreement was reached between the CSA ( Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel) , the French regulatory body for the media, and the national terrestial TV channels TF1, France 2, France 3 and M6. Five categories have been established in all: programmes are classified according to their compatibility with the spiritual, moral and mental development of children and young people. The classification, to be done by the above-mentioned broadcasters themselves, applies to...