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The organisation of the election of the President of the Republic and the campaign itself (the first round took place on 23 April of this year, the second round on 7 May) were taken up in a report by the CSA (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel - Audiovisual Supervisory Board). In the report, the CSA indicated to the public authorities that certain provisions in the legal framework of the elections were ripe for change. The CSA sets the rules concerning the production, programming and broadcasting of programmes on the electoral campaigns that the national broadcasting companies are obliged to produce,...

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...