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The national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) has taken the high moral ground in its supervision of the way women are treated in the audiovisual media. At its latest plenary assembly, on 20 December 2017, it announced a record fine of EUR 1 million against the youth-oriented radio station NRJ, and served formal notice to France Télévisions to comply with its undertakings with regard to combating violence against women. The fine imposed on NRJ follows the broadcasting - during the “C’ Cauet” programme on 9 December 2016 - of a hoax telephone call during...

On 3 January 2018, at his new year reception for the media, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, confirmed that a public audiovisual reform bill would be tabled in 2018. He thought it was “necessary to hold a detailed and very dispassionate review of public audiovisual regulations”. Therefore, by the end of the first quarter of 2018, the committee working on behalf the Minister of Culture, Françoise Nyssen, will submit shared, costed and structured proposals for the “ambitious transformation of the public audiovisual sector” that she announced on 21 December 2017. Input will be provided...

On 22 December 2017, a decree was adopted amending several elements of the terms of reference of France Télévisions. The first, main amendment concerns the entry into force of Act no. 2016-1771 of 20 December 2016 banning commercial advertising in children’s programmes on public television (see IRIS 2017-1/13). As of 1 January 2018, France Télévisions programmes aimed primarily at children under the age of 12 no longer contain advertising (other than generic messages promoting goods or services related to children’s health and development or general interest campaigns). This restriction applies...

On 22 December 2017, the court of appeal delivered a noteworthy decision reiterating the conditions defining infringement of copyright when an audiovisual work is an adaptation of a literary work. In the case at issue, the holders of rights in respect of the work of Charlotte Delbo, an iconic figure in the French Resistance and author of six books detailing her time spent as a political prisoner in La Santé prison, at Auschwitz, and in the Raisko commando, brought proceedings for infringement of copyright against France Télévisions, one production company, and two scriptwriters. They claimed that...

The national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel - CSA) has published its first report on the representation of women in television advertisements. Law No. 2017-86 of 27 January 2017 on equality and citizenship gave the CSA specific responsibility in the fight against sexism in advertising, as illustrated by the new provisions of Article 14 of the Audiovisual Act: “It [the CSA] shall monitor respect for the dignity of all persons and the image of women who appear in televised advertising.” It was in this context that the CSA, determined to make an active contribution...