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In two decisions issued on 23 December, the Conseil d’Etat has cancelled the authorisations issued by the Autorité de la concurrence (Competition Authority) and the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory authority - CSA) for Canal Plus’s purchase of the channels Direct 8 and Direct Star. The background to the story is that on 23 July 2012, after thorough investigation, the Competition Authority authorised the operation, on condition that the parties abided by their undertakings aimed at reducing the potential for the purchase giving rise to competition issues (see IRIS 2012-8/26)....

On 20 November 2013, the audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) adopted a recommendation on the handing of war situations by audiovisual communication services. Last February, the CSA launched a consultation on the subject with the main audiovisual groups and journalists, after France Télévisions had broadcast particularly distressing images of the war in Mali. The new recommendation repeals the two previous recommendations, one on the conflict in the Middle East (2003) (see IRIS 2003-4/15), and one directed at all television and radio services on international...

On 28 November 2013, the regional court in Paris ordered the five main Internet access providers (IAPs) in France to block access to sixteen streaming sites “in the Allostreaming galaxy” and four search engines to dereference them. The decision is the result of a wide-ranging legal offensive launched in 2011 by the main syndicates and associations of rightsholders in the audiovisual, cinema and video fields, acting on the basis of Article L. 336-2 of the Intellectual Property Code, instituted by the “HADOPI” Act of 12 June 2009, according to which “in the presence of an infringement of copyright...

On 8 November 2013 the judge at the regional court in Nantes delivered a decision under the urgent procedure in a rather unusual case. A well-known criminal who had escaped from prison on 13 April 2013 using explosives, after having taken four prison warders hostage (he was recaptured the following month) had discovered that the television channel M6 was preparing for broadcast a number of images filmed by prison video surveillance cameras when he escaped, as part of a news report on prisons and the violence that is omnipresent in them. He therefore had the television channel summoned to appear...

On 28 November 2013 the regional court in Paris delivered a noted judgment, ordering Facebook to re-open an “unofficial” fan page for the TV series Plus Belle la Vie (“PBLV”), blocked by the delegated producer in 2012. There have been more than two thousand episodes of this series (a record on French television), broadcast every evening on France 3 since 2004, attracting large audiences both on TV and on social networks. The creator and administrator of the “pblvmarseille” Internet site, an unofficial site devoted to the series, launched the “PBLV Marseille” page on Facebook in 2008. In 2012, she...