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Adopted by the Joint Committee in the middle of the summer, the Act on the organisation, management and funding of professional sport (the Act) was published in the Journal officiel on 4 August. Among other things, this legislation includes a considerable strengthening of the fight against piracy, in particular to enable much more rapid blocking measures during retransmissions of sporting events. It also incorporates an overhaul of the framework governing the marketing and redistribution of broadcasting rights. Chapter III of the Act (Articles 31 to 34) is specifically devoted to strengthening...

On 21 July, the French Parliament adopted, in a joint committee, the law aimed at protecting minors from the risks posed by the use of social media. Shortly afterwards, more than 60 MPs referred Article 1 of the act to the Constitutional Council; this article provided for the insertion into the Act of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy a new Article 6-9 prohibiting minors under the age of 15 from accessing online social media services. The MPs bringing the petition criticised the principle of a blanket ban on access to social media without distinction between the services...

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...