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At the beginning of October the French government television and radio monitoring body ( Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel - CSA) published its opinion on a Bill to amend the provisions of the Communication and Cinema Code concerning audio-visual communication. The Code itself is still a draft, having been tabled in 1993 and redrafted in October 1996. It is part of the programme to codify established law. Under the proposed provisions the Ministry of Culture would reinforce the CSA's jurisdiction, taking a number of its proposals into account. The amendments cover the role played by the CSA in...

Hervé Bourges, Chairman of the French media supervisory authority, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA), presented the 1995 annual report of the CSA's activities on 12 September 1996. In addition to the balance sheets of the television channels, the report also includes a statement on the sanctions taken against radio and television companies. Since 1.2.1994, the CSA has authority to penalise not only on the broadcasters it licences, but also the public-sector channels France 2, France 3, La Cinquième and RFO. Usually the sanction process progresses from a first stage of warning, with...

On 31 July 1996, after negotiations lasting more than six months, Hervé Bourges on behalf of the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA) signed agreements with Patrick Le Lay, Chairman of TF1, and Jean Drucker, Chairman of M6. These agreements replace the original authorisations issued in 1987 in accordance with Article 28.3 of the amended broadcasting law of 1986. This is the first time that agreements have applied to unencrypted, terrestrially-broadcast television - previously they usually only applied to radio stations and cable channels, and Canal +. The agreements include other important...

The report The Development of the Information Society: an International Analysis is the result of a pilot study to determine how to measure the UK's progress towards the information society. It was commissioned from Spectrum Strategy Consultants as part of the Department of Trade and Industry's Information Society Initiative (ISI). The consultants analysed the performance of the UK, five other G7 countries (USA, Canada, Japan, France and Germany) and three countries selected because of their pioneering activities within the context of the Information Society (Australia, Sweden and Singapore). According...

On 9 January 1996 the Court of Cassation delivered its judgment on the appeal by the Masson publishing house against a judgment delivered by the Paris Court of Appeal on 7 July 1992. According to the judgment of the Court of Cassation, it follows from Art. L.131-4 that the author's share of the proceeds of a publication must be calculated exclusively on the basis of sale price. This gives the provision a "caractère d'ordre public", ie the provision is therefore mandatory and cannot be departed from by agreement between the parties. The Court of Cassation concluded from this that an author could...