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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...

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...