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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Recording of sums calculated on the automatic audiovisual production account

Article 311-51

…red in the automatic audiovisual production account are increased by 25% when the reference works meet the following conditions: 1° For works belonging to the genre of fiction, creative documentary or…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Miscellaneous provisions

Article 311-77

…ce and ambition of the artist's repertoire, the originality of the artistic brief and the shooting set-up, as well as the ambition of the production.

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

Article 311-95

The application must be submitted at least one month before the date of the committee meeting at which the production company wishes it to be considered.

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

Article 311-100

To be eligible for financial support, music videos must be produced by delegated production companies that hold the intellectual property rights for at least two distinct modes of exploitation, at lea…

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

Article 312-9

Creation 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 312-11

For works of fiction, the application is submitted by one or more authors.For works of animation, the application is submitted jointly by one or more literary authors and one or more graphic authors.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Financing conditions

Article 311-8

…ontribution from one or more television service or on-demand audiovisual media service publishers meeting the following conditions:1° With regard to television service publishers:a) Where the publishe…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Calculation methods for fiction, animation and audiovisual adaptations of live performances

Article 311-40

…ptation of live performances is equal to the product of the duration of the work and a coefficient set according to the amount of French hourly expenditure.For the duration of audiovisual works belong…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Investment in production

Article 311-61

…the production company is obliged to repay the aid it has received to the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée. However, at the reasoned request of the production company, the President of t…

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

Article 311-93

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