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Pascal Rogard, president of the French society of dramatic authors and composers (Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques - SACD), wrote to the Minister for Culture early in the summer 2015 on the matter of showing films on France Télévisions’ catch-up service Pluzz. This was because when the public-sector audiovisual group had offered Claude Lanzmann’s film ‘Shoah’ on Pluzz for a period of thirty days on the occasion of the anniversary of the Liberation, a number of professional organisations in the cinema sector had referred the matter to the national audiovisual regulatory body (Conseil...

In a decision delivered on 31 July 2015, the administrative court in Paris suspended the classification licence allowing the film ‘Love’ to be shown to anyone over 16 years of age which the Minister for Culture had issued in early July. Gaspar Noé’s film, presented at the Cannes Film Festival and released on 15 July 2015, describes ‘a burning passion full of promises, games, excesses and mistakes…’. At the time, it was screened (in 3D) at 33 cinemas throughout France, including seven in Paris. The Minister’s decision was in line with the opinion of the CNC’s classification board, which had tacked...

In a decision on 1 June 2015, the Conseil d’État upheld an application from an association contesting the screening visa (visa d'exploitation) issued by the Minister for Culture for the horror film “Saw 3D: The Final Chapter”, which carried a ban on showing to anyone under the age of 16, whereas the association felt it should not be shown to anyone under the age of 18. In the case at issue, the Minister for Culture had issued the disputed visa to the film in 2010, and required audiences to be warned in the following terms: “This film includes many particularly realistic, brutal and even savage...

Two decisions handed down on 17 June 2015 by the Conseil d’État have cancelled the decisions made last July by the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory authority - CSA) which refused the DTTV channels LCI and Paris Première authorisation to switch to freeview. Article 42-3 of the Act of 30 September 1986, as amended by the Act of 15 November 2013, enables the audiovisual regulatory authority to authorise a switch from pay TV to freeview (or vice versa) by waiving the standard procedure which provides for allocating a freeview DTTV frequency after first calling for applicants...

On 6 May 2015, the audiovisual groups TF1, Canal +, M6 and France Télévisions, as well as the Association de Lutte contre la Piraterie Audiovisuelle (association to combat audiovisual piracy - ALPA) sent a letter to the CEO’s of Facebook and Twitter pointing out the need to introduce filtering mechanisms and steps to combat piracy on their sites. Copies were also sent to Minister for Culture, Fleur Pellerin. The representatives of the main French editors and producers of audiovisual and cinematographic works said they were alarmed by the new functions set up by both Facebook (368 million videos...