France: : Court finds against virtually unaltered take-up of a legal case in a reality law TV programme

• Autores: Amélie Blocman
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 1, 2015, págs. 17-18
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • After a court decision under the urgent procedure early last year (see IRIS 2014-4/15), it was the turn of the regional court in Paris to deliberate on the merits of the Intime Conviction case. The dispute arose as a result of the broadcasting by channel �Arte�, in February 2014, of a cross-media programme entitled Intime Conviction. This consisted of three parts: a television film following the course of the investigation into the death of the wife of a forensic doctor, �Dr Villers�; a web series reconstituting the court proceedings against the doctor, including the deliberations, in video format; and an �interactive� part enabling Internet users to consult the fictional contents of the investigation file and, after each hearing, to report online their �firm conviction� (hence the title of the programme) regarding the accused party.