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On 19 March 2015, the regional court (tribunal de grande instance - TGI) of Paris delivered a judgment, which is a promising development for holders of rights involving sports events in their battle against on-line video platforms and streaming sites. The case involved the French professional football league (Ligue de Football Professionnel - LFP) which had granted exclusive live audiovisual rights for the League 1 and 2 championships (in return for 748.5 million euros per season for the period from 2016 to 2020) to the pay channels Canal Plus and beIN Sport, and for subsequent availability on...

On 11 March 2015, Minister for Culture and Communication Fleur Pellerin presented the Government’s strategy for combating piracy on the Internet to the Council of Ministers. Apart from the graduated response applied to illegal downloading implemented by France’s high authority for the distribution of works and the protection of rights on the Internet (Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des Oeuvres et la Protection des Droits sur Internet - HADOPI), which remains in place, the action plan is also aimed at streaming sites and referencing, which benefit from pirated works. Three series of measures were...

The Google Spain decision delivered by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on 13 May 2014 upheld the possibility, subject to certain conditions, for Internet users to ask search engine operators to de-reference links appearing in hits for searches on their names. The operators, starting with Google, have put de-referencing request forms online for Internet users to fill in. Since operators have not always complied with these requests, a number of French courts have been called on to deal with a number of cases involving the CJEU’s criteria, and the first judgments under the urgent...

On 24 February 2015, the Conseil d’Etat announced the cancellation of the decree extending the application of the national collective agreement for the cinematographic production sector, signed in July 2013, to the entire profession (see IRIS 2013-7/12). The agreement lays down the remuneration for workers and technicians in the cinema sector; it was originally signed in January 2012 by the employees’ trade unions and the association of independent producers (Association des Producteurs Indépendants - API), after ten years of negotiations and against a background of serious inter-professional tension....

On 11 February 2015, five weeks after the terrorist attacks in France, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory authority - CSA) delivered its decisions on the way in which television channels and radio stations handled coverage of the attacks (see IRIS 2015-2/18). After analysing approximately five hundred hours of programmes, the CSA has announced that it found 36 breaches of the CSA Code, 15 of which justified the issue of a warning. Orders to comply have been issued in respect of the other 21 more serious breaches. However, none of the sanctions the CSA may impose under...