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As announced at the latest Cannes Film Festival, the first conference on parity, equality and diversity in the film industry was held in Paris on 20 September. Following consultation with the industry, the Minister for Culture, Françoise Nyssen, presented an initial series of practical measures designed to promote gender equality. Firstly, a 15% bonus applicable to financial subsidies for films in which the main roles are equally distributed between men and women will be trialled. An eight-point scale will be used to measure female representation in key positions. “Today, fewer than one out of...

Writer and journalist Eric Zemmour, who presents a weekly programme on the television channel Paris Première, continues to create controversy in his television broadcasts, despite several court convictions for inciting religious hatred. On 12 September 2018 the French national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - the CSA), which had previously warned the channels Canal Plus and RTL following appearances by the journalist, was asked for its opinion on a sequence broadcast during the programme Zemmour et Naulleau on Paris Première on 20 January 2018, in which the...

On 26 July, the Conseil d’Etat issued a judgment that sheds some light on the means of contesting a warning letter sent to a television channel by the French national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - the CSA). In the case concerned, the president of the CSA had been asked by anti-homophobia organisations to examine a sequence broadcast on the television channel Canal Plus during which someone had repeated a homophobic chant performed by Olympique de Marseille supporters. The CSA accordingly sent a letter to the chairman of the Canal Plus group informing it...

On 28 June 2018, the Court of Cassation issued a judgment explaining in detail the exclusive jurisdiction assigned by the Code de la propriété intellectuelle (Intellectual Property Code - the CPI) to the regional courts in relation to literary and artistic property. It referred to Article L. 331-1, paragraph 1 of the CPI, which states that “civil actions and requests concerning literary and artistic property, including those relating to unfair competition, fall under the exclusive jurisdiction of the regional courts, as determined by regulations”. In the case at hand, a production company accused...

The holders of the rights to the works of a deceased jazz drummer claimed that the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (the National Audiovisual Institute - the INA) was marketing a number of video clips and a disc on its website that reproduced some of the musician’s performances without their authorisation. They had the INA summoned to appear in court to obtain compensation for the infringement of the rights that they hold, invoking Article L. 212-3 of the Code de la Propriété Intellectuelle (the Intellectual Property Code - CPI). Since the adoption of legislation on 1 August 2006 amending Article 49...