FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2024

INA is a French public company whose first mission is to preserve and develop a vast collection of audiovisual and audio archives from French public radios and TV channels.

Due to the quantity of rights managed and the large number of rightsholders in the collection of INA’s archives, exploiting it involves taking risks.

In order to limit risk exposure, INA has developed a politic of collective agreement conclusion with CMOs (for the authors rights) and unions (for the performers rights). In the same time, individual agreements are concluded / negotiated with third-party property rights (rightsholders non-members of CMOs, coproducers, organizers of sports events / shows, multiple rightsholders of contents previously incorporated in INA’s archives (photo, phonograms, literary works, etc.).

INA’s Legal Department also have to deal with rights of the personality, image, freedom of expression, private life… and others (with the IA, RGPD).

Our purpose is to facilitate the work of our operational teams with clear guidelines on each subject. A legal team at the INA’s Legal Department is dedicated to the legal analysis of our contents with the perspective of an exploitation to manage the risk. INA has launched a project to create a SI which enables to combine the legal data on the contents and the royalties data in order to simplify the decision making. However, human intervention is still necessary to appreciate the risk and the opportunity of an exploitation.