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Following trilateral discussions between the Parliament, the Council and the European Commission on the revision of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AMSD), which began almost a year ago, the agreement reached on 24 April 2018 has been unanimously welcomed by the French National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC), the Higher Audiovisual Council (CSA) and the Minister of Culture, who labelled it “balanced and ambitious”. Françoise Nyssen said that the text, which marks a new stage in audiovisual regulation, “is exactly what France wants as regards the promotion of cultural diversity,...

In a speech delivered on 18 April at a reception in honour of the French films selected for the next Cannes Film Festival, Minister for Culture Françoise Nyssen referred to her three “battles” in defence of the French cinema. Firstly, this June will see the holding of a “session in favour of gender equality in the cinema”, at which a series of measures will be discussed with all the representatives of the sector, beginning with the drawing-up of an equality charter, agreement with which would become a condition for receiving the Centre national du cinema et de l’image animée (French national centre...

At its plenary assembly on 11 April 2018, the French national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) issued formal notice to France Télévisions to abide by the provisions of its contractual specifications with regard to the particular attention required when broadcasting news in connection with ongoing criminal proceedings. Referral had been made to the CSA following the broadcasting during the Envoyé Spécial programme last December of an item on women who had brought a complaint after being raped or sexually assaulted by their hierarchical superior. The larger...

The Tribunal de Grande Instance (regional court) in Paris was asked to decide whether a film portraying the director’s family history could constitute an infringement of the copyright relating to an autobiography written by his father a few years earlier. In 2007, the plaintiff published an autobiography Téhéran-Paris, which tells the story of an Iranian man, describing his childhood, his activities as a political opponent of the Shah and Mullah regimes, his escape from Iran with his wife and son, and his arrival in France. After the author’s son, a comedian and actor, wrote and directed the film...

On 19 April 2018 the Conseil d’Etat made public its opinion on the proposed legislation to combat fake news that is to be examined by Parliament in the next few weeks. Since the 2008 revision of the Constitution, the leader of either of the Assemblies may submit proposed legislation to the Conseil d’État for its opinion, and 2015 saw the end of the tradition of secrecy regarding such opinions. The Conseil d’Etat observed firstly that “French law already contains a number of provisions aimed, in substance, at combating the circulation of fake news, following various separate paths of logic”. Thus,...