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On 13 April 2012 the regional court in Paris delivered a judgment under the urgent procedure in a case concerning the comedian Dieudonné. A video entitled Dieudonné l’antisémite - Les camps de concentration (Dieudonné the anti-Semite - the concentration camps), produced and directed by Dieudonné, which could be viewed on the YouTube site, promoted the film L’Antisémite that was to go on sale the following month on the Internet. The disputed sequence, used for the trailer and shown at the start of the film, shows the arrival of an American officer, played by the comedian, discovering a concentration...

On 21 March 2012 the European Commission gave the green light for the national scheme to digitise France’s film heritage (see IRIS 2011-7/23). The national centre for cinematography and animated images (Centre National de la Cinéma et de l’image animée - CNC) has been instructed to implement the action programme, which will have a EUR 400 million budget over six years. Short films and feature films produced up to 1999 will be eligible, along with historic silent films. The European Commission carried out an investigation to determine the compatibility of the digitisation scheme with Community rules...

On 12 March 2012 the judge sitting in urgent matters at the regional court in Paris had to deal with an application for suspension of the broadcasting of a programme entitled Vol AF 447 Rio/Paris : les raisons d’un crash (Flight 447 from Rio to Paris - the reasons for a crash), scheduled to be shown two evenings later on the public channel France 3, which included a reconstruction of the last four minutes immediately preceding the disaster. On the basis of Article 809 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the fathers of the two pilots and an association defending the victims of the accident were calling...

The French national press has just published a judgment delivered by the administrative court in July 2011 in a case in which the national channel TF1 was claiming the repayment of the tax on television services it had paid between June 2004 and April 2006 on the basis of Article 302 bis KB of the General Tax Code, according to which “there shall be instituted a tax payable by every operator of a television service received in France (…) which, in the course of the previous calendar year, has programmed one or more cinematographic works eligible for aid from the special allocation account (…) entitled...

On 28 February 2012 the Court of Cassation delivered a judgment that attracted much attention in the legal saga over disputed reporting on France 2. It will be remembered (the images were seen all over the world) that in September 2000 the channel broadcast a report with comments by its permanent correspondent in the Middle East on clashes between Palestinians and Israelis in the Gaza Strip. The report showed a Palestinian trying to protect his child, Mohammed al-Dura, from shooting that, according to commentators, was coming from Israeli positions, and that fatally wounded the child. Four years...