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At the end of a long cycle of hearings of professionals, the audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) published on 9 January 2013 its position on the matter of the qualification of “scripted reality” programmes (see IRIS 2013-1/22). The question raised was whether these hybrid low-cost productions could be considered as fiction, and be included as such in the calculation of the channels’ production and broadcasting quotas, and receive aid from the national cinema centre (Centre National du Cinéma - CNC). Thus the CSA observes that the programmes broadcast in 2012...

On 3 January 2013, in plenary assembly at the end of a process of thorough consideration in conjunction with radio and television companies, journalists, and representatives of social networks, the audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) revised its decision to ban specific references to social networks in radio and television broadcasts. It has become a frequent occurrence for channels to refer viewers to the pages devoted to their programmes on social networks such as Facebook, or to invite them to respond with a Tweet. Until now, radio and television broadcasts...

On 17 June 2011, the Conseil d’Etat, acknowledging the CJEU’s “Padawan” judgment (see IRIS 2010-10/7), cancelled Decision 11 of the “private copy” committee responsible for determining the types of media, the rates of remuneration, and the method of paying the remuneration for making a private copy provided for in favour of rightsholders in application of Articles 311-1 et seq. of the French intellectual property code (Code de la Propriété Intellectuelle - CPI) (see IRIS 2011-7/20). The justification for the cancellation was that all the media were subject to the remuneration, without any possibility...

The audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) has announced that, starting on 19 November 2012, it will hold hearings of the professionals concerned (producers, TV channels, scriptwriters, authors’ societies) regarding “scripted reality” programmes. The first broadcast of this type, “Le jour où tout a bascule”, which reconstructs stories based on true events, was broadcast on the public-sector channel France 2 in July 2011. Since then this inexpensive format, combining fiction, news and reality television, is presented on a daily basis on a large majority of channels,...

On 21 August 2012 the Prime Minister announced he was considering the convergence of the audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) and the electronic communications and postal authority (Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques and des Postes - ARCEP). He has instructed a number of Ministers to send him proposals by the end of November on the changes in legislation and regulations that would be necessary. There is indeed no doubt that as audiovisual content is being increasingly shown on fixed and mobile Internet devices it is necessary to consider...