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After the administrative court this summer (see IRIS 2015-8/15), it has been the turn of the Conseil d’Etat to consider the classification licence issued to Gaspar Noé’s film “Love”; and delivered its decision on 30 September 2015. In the case at issue, the Ministry of Culture - which in July had issued a classification licence preventing the film being shown to minors over 16 years of age - and the production companies had called on the Conseil d'Etat to cancel the order delivered under the urgent procedure suspending performance of the licence because it did not allow the film to be shown to...

The regional court (tribunal de grande instance - TGI) of Paris has delivered an interesting judgment in a case of infringement of film copyright. The case at issue was brought by an American director and producer of a number of horror and science-fiction films. He made the film ‘New York 1997’, which was released in 1981. In it, the hero - in exchange for his freedom - has 24 hours to save the president of the United States, who is being held on Manhattan island, transformed into a prison. In April 2012 he learned of the release of a film entitled ‘Lock-Out’, produced by the company Europacorp...

On 24 June 2015 the Court of Cassation delivered a judgment it decided to have published in the official gazette because it usefully defined the scope of application of the collective agreement applicable to the audiovisual production sector. In the case at issue, an employee who had been recruited by the French audiovisual group AB as a video technician with the status of a worker in casual employment in show business and had had 589 fixed-term contracts in the space of nine years had taken her case to the industrial tribunal, with claims concerning both the performance of the contractual relationship...

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...