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In a decision dated 12 June 2026, the French audiovisual regulator (Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique – Arcom) served a formal notice on the broadcaster of the CNews channel to ensure, in future, that its news programmes comply with the requirement for pluralism of schools of thought and opinion. In March 2025, the channel had displayed a clear and persistent imbalance in favour of a single school of thought. The decision follows on from the case law of the Council of State (Conseil d'Etat), in particular the decisions...

The Act of 24 July 2019, transposing Directive (EU) 2019/790 of 17 April 2019, introduced a related right for publishers and news agencies. In this context, Meta had entered into agreements in 2021 and 2024 with a trade union representing the interests of the general news press (Alliance de la Presse d’Information Générale – APIG), and a collective management organisation dedicated to defending the related rights of publishers and press agencies (Société des Droits Voisins de la Presse – DVP), covering payment of related rights until the end of 2024...

A draft piece of French legislation proposing to ban children under the age of 15 from accessing social media had prompted a formal opinion from the European Commission, stating that it overlapped with the Digital Services Act (DSA). The opinion required French lawmakers to revise the bill and negotiate a compromise between the first version of the bill, approved by the National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale), and the second version, adopted by the Senate. The National Assembly’s version proposed a broad ban that applied to all “social network services online provided by...

In the event of serious and repeated infringements of audiovisual exploitation rights and neighbouring rights relating to sports events or competitions committed by online public communication services whose main objective, or one of whose main objectives, is the unauthorised broadcasting of such competitions, Article L. 333‑10 of the French Sports Code provides sports rights holders (leagues, federations, television channels) with a fast-track procedure before the president of the judicial court. The judge, ruling in summary proceedings or under the expedited procedure on the merits,...

After six months of work and heated debate, the report on the “neutrality, operation and funding of public service broadcasting” was adopted by the parliamentary committee of inquiry. In the report, MP Charles Alloncle, the rapporteur, offers a critical assessment of the impartiality and funding of public service broadcasting, setting out 70 recommendations aimed at “reforming, reducing costs and improving oversight of public service broadcasting”. Meanwhile, the committee chair, Jérémie Patrier-Leitus, presented 40 counter-proposals. Among the rapporteur’s...