Search results : 1145

In a press release published on 17 May 2021, the TF1, Métropole Télévision, Bouygues and RTL Groups announced that they had begun exclusive negotiations with a view to merging the activities of TF1 and Métropole Télévision (M6 Group). Following the merger, Bouygues would own 30% of the new company while the RTL Group would hold 16%. Free, a company active in the audiovisual content distribution market, and Iliad, its parent company, asked the Conseil d'Etat (State Council) to annul the French Competition Authority’s decision to investigate the...

On 22 February 2022, the French film organisations Blic, Bloc and ARP announced that they had signed their first agreement with a subscription-based on-demand video service, Netflix. The three-year agreement follows on from the Decree of 22 June 2021, which obliges foreign service providers to fund French and European film-making. Previously, only French providers had been under such an obligation. As part of its obligation to invest 4% of its net turnover generated in France, Netflix has agreed to contribute at least EUR 30 million per year to French-language film production. The agreement also...

A key element of the latest audiovisual reforms, media chronology, which determines when cinematographic works can be released via different methods of exploitation, is set out in Articles L. 231-1 et seq. of the Code du cinéma et de l'image animée (Cinema and Animated Image Code). Under the law, a professional agreement should be signed, setting out when a film can be made available by an on-demand audiovisual media service provider or when it can be broadcast on television. Under the new legal framework created through the transposition of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive...

Following the television broadcast of an advertisement for “Nana” sanitary products in September and October 2019, the Pornostop organisation, whose primary goal is to prevent minors being exposed to pornography, asked the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (the French audiovisual regulator – CSA) to issue a formal notice to the television companies concerned, demanding that they respect their obligations to protect children. After the CSA rejected its request, Pornostop requested the annulment of the CSA’s initial decision and its subsequent rejection of...

In application of Article 42 of the Loi confortant le respect des principes de la République (Law no. 2021-1109 of 24 August 2021 safeguarding respect for the principles of the Republic), which amended Article 6-4 of the Loi pour la confiance dans l'économie numérique (Law no. 2004-575 on confidence in the digital economy – LCEN), decree no. 2022-32 of 14 January 2022 requires online platform operators that registered more than 10 million unique visitors per month on French soil in the previous calendar year to contribute to the fight against the dissemination of...