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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.

The judgement handed down by the commercial court of Paris on 8 June 1995 stated that the urgent action sought in the court by the magazines Le Nouvel Observateur, VSD and l'Evènement du Jeudi against certain German and American publications for unfair competition, was rejected and that the magazines would have to pay damages to the defendants. The three weeklies had argued that foreign publications could be sold in France, while they were in breach of the Evin law forbidding any advertising for tobacco and alcohol. The court did not deny that the foreign press was in breach of the law, but stated...

The Heads of State and Government of seven major industrialized nations and the President of the European Commission, have met in Halifax for their 21st annual Summit. They announced that they were committed to the successful completion of current negociations in services sectors and, in particular, significant liberalization in financial and telecommunications services. They will proceed with follow-up work foreseen in the Uruguay Round Final Act. They encourage work in areas such as technical standards, intellectual property; an immediate priority is the negotiation in the OECD of a high standard...