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The Court of Appeal in Paris has also been looking at infringement of copyright - in this case, the alleged infringement of copyright with regard to the film The Artist, which won five Oscars. A French scriptwriter who claimed that he held author’s rights in respect of the script for an intended full-length silent film in black and white entitled Timidity, la symphonie du petit homme, felt that the film The Artist, released at the end of 2011, used key sequences from his script, included in a previous version. He therefore instigated legal proceedings against the writer, director and producers...

In a decision adopted on 15 November 2017, the Conseil d’Etat deliberated on the application for the cancellation, on the grounds that it had exceeded its authority, of the decision adopted by the CSA (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) on 6 July 2016 attributing a frequency to the national programme company France Télévisions for broadcasting the new France Info continuous news channel terrestrially in digital mode. In application of Article 26.II of the Act of 30 September 1986, the Minister for Culture had called on the CSA to allow priority use of airwave resources by France Télévisions...

In a decision adopted on 4 September 2017, the Conseil d’Etat pronounced on the first in a series of formal notices served this year by the national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) on the television channel C8 for a number of cases of inappropriate behaviour during the programme Touche pas à mon poste. The present case involved a sequence broadcast in October 2016 during which a commentator kissed an extra on the chest, even though she had expressed several times her unwillingness to submit to such behaviour. The matter was referred to the CSA by the...

Totally in line with the proposals put forward this summer by the Senate’s Committee on Culture (see IRIS 2017-8/17), and in an attempt to counter the stalled professional negotiations and address the urgent need for more appropriate regulations, Minister for Culture Françoise Nyssen has set up a mediation process in respect of media chronology. This has been deemed to be “a delicate task” and “a priority for the Government”; it forms part of the next stage in negotiations undertaken by the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée (French National Centre for the Cinema and Animated Image...

Court decisions acknowledging the original nature of the format for a television programme are rare, so due attention should be paid to the decision delivered by the regional court in Paris on 20 April 2017. In 2009, the producer-presenter of a number of variety programmes on television concluded a production contract with France Télévisions for a new musical programme entitled Chabada, which was based on an original idea she claimed was her own. The aim of the programme was to bring together singers and French “chansons” both past and present, with three or four guests, representing three generations...