French Cinema and Moving Image Code

In order to preserve the diversity of the cinematographic offer, any practice is prohibited and any contractual clause is deemed to be unwritten which is likely to make either the choice of distribution or programming of cinematographic works in cinemas, or the determination of the rate of the contribution proportional to the box office receipts provided for in articles L. 213-9 to L. 213-11, dependent on the conditions of determination…

The Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (National Centre for Cinema and Moving Images) will convene a professional consultation committee responsible for drawing up recommendations for good practice to ensure, in the context of digital projection, the widest possible distribution of cinematographic works in the general interest, the maintenance of the cultural development of the territory and the diversity of cinematographic works and cinematographic entertainment…

Exhibitors of cinematographic establishments transmit to distributors the data extracted from the operating logs of digital projection equipment relating to the exhibition of long-running cinematographic works that these distributors have made available to them. However, the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée may, on behalf of the exhibitors, transmit the data to the distributors concerned. Exhibitors also send the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée the…

The digital projection equipment and digital files or data referred to in article L. 213-16, their conditions of use and the operating logs referred to in article L. 213-21 comply with ISO international standards relating to digital projection in cinemas.

When their purpose is to finance, even partially, the initial installation of digital projection equipment, selective financial aid from the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée is subject to programming commitments controlled by the Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée under the same conditions as those relating to 4° of article L. 212-23. These programming commitments are monitored for a period of five…