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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 312-42

If the work belongs to the fiction genre, the project must have been awarded creation aid or rewriting aid.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 312-43

Project development grants are only awarded for projects conceived and written entirely or mainly in French or in a regional language used in France.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 312-46

The aid application is submitted by one production company or by several production companies acting jointly.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 312-45

In the event of production, project development aid and, where applicable, preparation aid granted in application of Chapter I of this Title, may not have the effect of increasing the total amount of…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Regulatory and monitoring role in the field of technical protection measures and the identification of protected works and objects

Article R331-48

A cross-appeal may be lodged even if its author is precluded from lodging a main appeal. However, in the latter case, the cross-appeal will not be admissible if it is lodged more than one month after…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Regulatory and monitoring role in the field of technical protection measures and the identification of protected works and objects

Article R331-49

Where the appeal is likely to affect the rights or obligations of other persons who were parties to the proceedings before the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique, su…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Regulatory and monitoring role in the field of technical protection measures and the identification of protected works and objects

Article R331-45

By way of derogation from the provisions of Title VI of Book II of the Code of Civil Procedure, appeals brought before the Paris Court of Appeal against decisions of the Autorité de régulation de la c…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Regulatory and monitoring role in the field of technical protection measures and the identification of protected works and objects

Article R331-44

…ithin a period of one month, lodge an appeal for annulment or reversal with the Paris Court of Appeal. The increases in time limits provided for in article 643 of the Code of Civil Procedure do not ap…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Regulatory and monitoring role in the field of technical protection measures and the identification of protected works and objects

Article R331-46

…l person, its name, form, registered office and the body representing it;2° The subject of the appeal.Where the statement of appeal does not contain a statement of the pleas in law relied upon, the ap…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Regulatory and monitoring role in the field of technical protection measures and the identification of protected works and objects

Article R331-47

Within five days of the filing of his statement, the author of the appeal must, on pain of the latter being declared null and void ex officio, send, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receip…

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