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On 7 September 1995, informal talks took place at the Paris office of the CSA (Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel), the body responsible for supervision of the media in France, on the reporting of terrorist acts on radio and television. The wave of terrorist attacks, which has held the country in suspense since the first bomb was planted on 25 July 1995, led the President of the CSA to invite the programme directors of the main broadcasting bodies to this meeting. He reminded the participants that the CSA had the task of ensuring that the news was truthfully reported, and urged them to exercise...

documents or other texts are available yet. The French Media Authority, the Conseil Superieur de l'Audiovisuel, has published a study on violence on television. The study, titled 'la représentation de la violence dans la fiction à la télévision en France' is the result of an analysis of the programmes of TF1, France 2, France 3 and M6 in April 1994. The study shows that every hour of television broadcasts contains on avarage 2.09 sequences of 'criminal actions' and 9.5 violent acts (crime and aggression). The study concludes that 40% of the criminal and violent acts are to be seen on M6; this figure...

The Court of Cassation ordered TF1 to pay damages to Antenne 2 for the plagiarisation of its programme " La Nuit des héros ". The court ruled that TF1's programme " Les marches de la gloire " had been copied directly from Antenne 2. The Court laid down that the two television series were based on the same concept and followed similar lines that compared the values of everyday life and of sport. The two production scripts were also considered to have the same structure, with sequences of the same length, the same kind of musical backing and similar studio presentations, although the anchormen on...

Following an agreement drawn up in 1975, the Syndicat National des Artistes Musiciens (SNAM National Union of Musicians) and the Syndicat des Artistes Musiciens de la Région Parisienne (SAMUP - Union of Musicians of the Region of Paris) mandated the Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique (SNEPNational Union of Phonographic Publishing) to negociate general contracts with the television channels as to the use of phonograms for radio and television broadcasting. A certain number of these agreements concerned play-back (mimed playing and/or singing). A collective agreement was drawn up at a...

In two recent circulars, France's media watchdog body, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA) told TV programme producers throughout the country that it meant to ensure, from 1 September 1995, that the regulations on the acceptability of certain kinds of advertising were strictly observed in individual programmes. These regulations are set out in the implementing Decree, No. 92-280 of 27 March 1992, on Section 27 (1) of Act No. 86-1067 of 30 September 1986 (the French Broadcasting Act). The Decree was issued to transpose the Directive on "Television without Frontiers" into national French...