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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...

The Tribunal de Grande Instance (regional court - TGI) of Paris has delivered a judgment recalling the vigilance necessary on the part of production companies and television channels in order to respect the presumption of the innocence of people presented in reports. A public-sector television channel had broadcast a report entitled Rwanda: des prêtres accusés (Rwanda - priests under accusation) on the massacre which took place in Rwanda in 1994, claiming that a number of priests had taken part in the “genocide”, and that some of them, found guilty by courts in Rwanda, had been “exfiltrated by...

The “règlement général des aides financières” (general regulations on financial assistance - RGA) of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée (national centre for the cinema and animated images - CNC) were published in the French official journal on 10 February 2015. These regulations are the final stage of the codification of legislation on the cinema and thereby constitute the first ever code for allocating CNC aid. Without actually changing the legislation, it repeals and replaces the entire body of eleven decrees and the hundred or so decisions of various kinds in the field of financial...