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On 18 June the commercial court in Nanterre delivered a judgment that had been keenly awaited in the audiovisual sector. Canal Plus, editor of the eponymous premium channel and five derivative versions, including Canal + Sports which offers its subscribers exclusive live sports events, had brought proceedings for unfair competition against BeIN Sports, the Qatari subsidiary of Al Jazeera Network, which edits two sport channels launched in France in the summer of 2012. These channels had acquired a large number of audiovisual rights in respect of sport events, particularly top-level football competitions....

The 67^th Cannes Festival provided an occasion for French cinema to develop its presence outside its national borders. Two conventions aimed at promoting French cinema worldwide were signed on 18 May 2014 by Aurélie Filippetti, Minister for Culture, and Fleur Pellerin, Secretary of State with responsibility for foreign trade. The first, signed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development and the Centre national de la cinématographie et de l'image animée (National Centre of Cinematography - CNC), in conjunction with the Institut Français and Unifrance Film, involves...

After issuing a serious alert on 14 May 2014 to the heads of the television channels and radio stations, particularly private generalist ones, on the need to abide by the principle of equity ten days prior to the European Parliament elections, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory authority - CSA) eventually announced in the following week a number of warnings concerning the serious imbalances it had noted. The principle of equity implies that television services must allocate air time to the candidates (or to the political parties) and their supporters in proportion to...

On 22 May 2014 the press chamber of the regional court of Paris delivered two judgments which illustrate the subtle appreciation of the right to exercise humour and the limits of freedom of speech on television. In the case at issue, Marine Le Pen, leader of the right-wing ‘Front National’ political party, had summoned both the director of publication of France Télévisions and the presenter of the weekly infotainment programme ‘On n’est pas couché’ to appear in court in respect of the presentation, in two separate broadcasts, of satirical drawings which the complainant found insulting. The first...

Completely in line with the “Report on ways to combat streaming and illegal downloading” published by the HADOPI on 15 February 2013 and the conclusions of the Lescure report (see IRIS 2013-6/19), the Minister for Culture gave in July 2013 Ms Imbert-Quaretta, President of the HADOPI Committee for the Protection of Rights, the task of compiling a number of “operational tools for the effective involvement of the technical and financial intermediaries in preventing and combating commercial counterfeiting on-line”. The reports had highlighted the value of attempting to dry up the financial resources...