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The decision taken to close cinemas on 30 October on public health grounds brought a halt to film screenings in cinemas. In order to protect producers and distributors, and to enable the public to continue watching the films available at the time, a decree was issued on 27 November 2020 shortening by up to four weeks the four-month period before works can be released on VOD or DVD/Blu-Ray under Article 231-1 of the Cinema and Animated Images Code. A similar measure had been taken under the emergency law passed on 23 March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 epidemic, after cinemas had been ordered...

The activities of children under 16 whose image is disseminated via online video platforms are now regulated in France. This phenomenon often has significant economic and financial implications, either for the children’s families, who frequently generate a large income from it, or for the brands that use these videos as a new form of advertising. Before the recent introduction of a new law, videos of this type, which are filmed by parents and depict minors, were not regulated in any way. Unlike the work of children in the entertainment industry, for example, filming schedules and durations...

The dispute between Google and representatives of press publishers and the France Presse agency has entered round 2. The press representatives had appealed to the French competition authority complaining about Google’s implementation of the Act of 24 July 2019 creating a neighbouring right for press publishers and agencies. A month before the Act entered into force, Google had decided to stop posting article excerpts, photographs and videos within its various services unless publishers allowed it to do so free of charge. In practice, the vast majority of press publishers had therefore granted...

On 26 July 2017, the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (the French audiovisual regulator – CSA) imposed one of the largest fines it had ever inflicted on a television channel for inappropriate conduct on air. Pursuant to Articles 42 and 42-1 of the Act of 30 September 1986, it fined the C8 channel (Groupe Canal Plus) EUR 3 million following a sequence broadcast during the programme Touche pas à mon poste two months earlier. During the programme, its presenter had encouraged people contacted by telephone to talk about their private lives and sexual activities in very crude...

At a joint committee meeting held at the French Parliament on 22 October, MPs and senators failed to reach agreement on the outstanding provisions of the Projet de loi portant diverses dispositions d’adaptation du droit national au droit de l’Union européenne (Bill covering various provisions to adapt national law to European Union law – DDADUE). The bill is designed to enable the government to transpose the European Union’s Audiovisual Media Services, Copyright and Cab-Sat Directives by ordinance. Having been adopted at first reading by the Senate on 8 July 2020...