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The Audiovisual Supervisory Board ( Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel - CSA ) came under questioning by TV Carton Jaune, an association of legal experts arguing for more honesty in TV news. The association asked why Patrick Poivre D'Arvor, the presenter of the 8pm news programme was being allowed to keep his job in the wake of his being found guilty of misappropriation of funds in the recent "Botton" case. The CSA re-stated its commitment to accurate news broadcasting and its opposition to any misleading reporting, but went on to say that whatever they might think of the affair, they could not...

The Treaty, signed on 8 April by N.Sarkozy, the Minister of the Budget, with special responsibility for Communications, and A.Juppé, Minister of Foreign Affairs on the one hand and P.Dijoud, Minister of State for the Principality of Monaco, on the other, sets out the relationship between France and Monaco over transmission rights. The Treaty allows Télé Monte-Carlo (TMC) to continue broadcasting in French territory. The broadcasting licence held by TMC for broadcasting from three transmitters covering the south of France had run out. The decision to renew did not come within the Audiovisual Supervisory...

LIENHARD - PETITOT, Attorneys at Law) convention with Canal Plus containing 34 articles and an appendix that will open the way to the renewal of the encrypted channel's licence. This licence, awarded by the Government in 1983, will be running out on 5 December 1995. The convention will come into effect as of 6 December and will run for 5 years. Canal Plus will therefore be brought under the same general rules as the other authorised Hertzian channels. Canal Plus can schedule 365 films per year to be broadcast between midday and midnight, each film being shown 6 times, including once in its original...

The decisions of the Conseil d'Etat (State Council) of 17 March 1995 include the statement that "the fact that some elements of the enquiry have been entrusted to a rapporteur does not deprive the enquiry of its collegiate nature once all these elements have been submitted to the Radiophonic Technical Committee"; this is eminently sensible as if it were the other way round, it would turn the CTR into a kind of Kafka-like bureaucracy. These decisions give other useful details as to the manner in which the CTR's work; they show on the one hand that the enquiry should not be carried out within the...

The Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédia (SCAM - the Association of Multimedia Authors), an association for the collective management of copyright, fights a daily battle on behalf of its members for their moral and financial rights. The Association gives out information on contracts negociated by the authors and directors with production companies. The SCAM can also provide specimen writing contracts (for screenplays, texts, artwork, photographs, etc.), production contracts and a contract for a work on CD-ROM.