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The circular, dated 12 September 1995, specifies the conditions according to which the different non-profitmaking organisations which organise each year campaigns of general interest appealing to the generosity of the public may ask for help from public sector audio-visual communication companies (radio or television).

In its decision of 4 July 1995, the Court of Cassation supported the first judges' rulings which had found against the sub-contractor entrusted with the technical production of copies of an advertising film concerning a loan, who had committed a serious fault in not checking if the correction of rates requested by the client was clearly indicated in the message transmitted. This serious fault cancels the liability limitation clause. The case calls into question the responsibility of the Régie française de publicité (RFP) in the carrying out of its task, as a public administrative service, of exercising...

The Court of Cassation, in a decision of 4 July 1995, notes that the rights transmitted to the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA), by virtue of the Act of 29 July 1982, are those held by the société nationale de programmes de télévision France régions (FR3) under the co-production and distribution contract for six television films (adapted from the work of Edgar Allan Poe "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"), concluded previously with a company. Proceeding with the necessary interpretation of this contract, the Court held finally that the stipulations which reserved exclusivity of the works...

In a judgement of 4 July 1995, the Court of Cassation held that the showing of the entire works of a painter during a television programme did not constitute a short quotation within the meaning of the Intellectual Property Code. In this particular case, the television company, Antenne 2, showed a programme on 29 November 1988 devoted to topical events in the theatre, during which, in connection with a play being performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the mural paintings of Edouard Vuillard in the smokers' bar were shown. On 16 November 1988 the theatre had inaugurated the re-hanging of the...

On 27 July 1995, the French National Assembly Delegation for the European Union sent a proposal to the National Assembly for a resolution on the European Commission's proposals to amend the "Television without Frontiers" Directive (89/552/CEE of 3 October 1989). The proposal for a resolution on this issue is based on a report of Deputy Francois Guillaume The proposal contains the following wishes: - to strengthen European audio-visual production in the framework of the Media II programme; - to include in the Directive the new services that have the same characteristics as traditional television...