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On 14 October, as the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, Emmanuel Macron imposed a curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. in France’s eight largest cities and throughout Ile-de-France. Much to the disappointment of film industry representatives, evening cinema screenings, which are crucial for cinema operators, were therefore prohibited. On 22 October, the President of the Republic extended the curfew to a further 38 départements. Six days later, he announced a nationwide lockdown, including the closure of all cinemas. On 22 October, as part of the support and assistance measures...

In a case concerning freedom of political expression and the right to protest, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found that the conviction of pro-Palestine activists had violated their right to freedom of expression as guaranteed by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The activists were convicted for incitement to economic discrimination on account of their campaign aimed at boycotting products imported from Israel. The 11 applicants in this case are members of the “Collectif Palestine 68”, which is a local relay for the international campaign “Boycott,...

On 10 September, the European Commission presented its evaluation report on the Code of Practice on Disinformation, which was launched at the end of 2018. The report takes into account the annual self-evaluation reports of the platforms that have signed the code (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Mozilla and TikTok). These platforms have set up policies aimed in particular at reducing advertising opportunities and economic incentives for distributors of online disinformation and at creating functionalities that give prominence to reliable information. The report notes that the quality of the...

Through an amendment of the Projet de loi portant diverses dispositions d’adaptation au droit de l’Union européenne en matière économique et financière (Bill covering various provisions to adapt to European Union economic and financial law – DDADUE), examined by the Senate on 7 and 8 July, the government gave itself the power to legislate by ordinance in order to transpose the Audiovisual Media Services Directive 2018/1808 of 14 November 2018 (AVMS Directive). The bill will be examined by the National Assembly on 7 October. The Ministry of Culture announced...

The cultural sector continues to be hit hard by the health crisis. On 23 September, the French Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot, presented a set of measures to support the audiovisual and film industries. The measures include, on the one hand, a EUR 50 million emergency fund managed by the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (National Centre of Cinematography and the Moving Image – CNC) to encourage cinema operators to resume their activities by offsetting the loss of box office revenues suffered by cinemas due to the drop in ticket sales from September...