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By a decision on 30 July 2014, the Competition Authority suspended the agreement between the national rugby league (Ligue Nationale de Rugby – LNR) and Groupe Canal Plus, which allocated exclusive broadcasting rights to the group for the matches in the French first division rugby championship (‘Top 14’) for five seasons, from 2014 to 2018. In December 2013, at the end of fruitless private negotiations with Canal Plus on upgrading television rights for the Top 14, the LNR decided on the early termination on the contract between it and Canal Plus, and announced the start of a tendering procedure...

The Cinema Mediator - a function currently being carried out by Jeanne Seyvet - has published her report on the activities of 2013. The Cinema Mediator intervenes in the event of disputes regarding the circulation of films in cinema theatres, mainly between theatre operators and distributors. The parties meet with a view to seeking prior conciliation, in compliance with the rules on competition (Articles L. 213.1 to L. 213.8 of the Code on the Cinema and Animated Images and Decree No. 83-86 of 9 February 1983 as amended). The Mediator has powers of injunction. “Upstream” intervention nevertheless...

On 9 June 2014, the Minister for Culture and Communication launched a public consultation in order to ascertain the views of the stakeholders concerned by the change to the scheme of contribution to the production of audiovisual works applicable to editors of television services. The Act of 15 November 2013 on the independence of the public audiovisual sector altered the criteria for independent audiovisual production, henceforth authorising broadcasters to share in a coproduction on condition that they participate substantially in the financing of the work (Art. 7-1 of the Act of 30 September...

The process of revising the Decree on On-Demand Audiovisual Media Services of 12 March 2010 (see IRIS 2011-1/26) continues. Following on from the audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) submitting a report to the Government in November 2013 in which it made a number of proposals for amending the text (see IRIS 2014-2/20), the Minister for Culture and Communication embarked on a public consultation at the beginning of June with a view to obtaining comments from the stakeholders concerned. The aim is to determine what the follow-up should be to the recommendations...

An agreement between TF1 and BeIN Sports, joint holders of the rights to broadcast the 2014 World Cup in France, was reached just two days before the start of the competition, enabling other television channels to acquire match excerpts. TF1, a private channel broadcasting unencrypted, had acquired full broadcasting rights for 130 million euros, and the Qatari sport channel BeIN Sports bought the rights from it for all the matches. BeIN Sports was thus offering live broadcasting of all 64 matches in the competition, showing 36 of them in exclusivity. TF1 for its part will be broadcasting 28, including...