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Amended by the Loi visant à sécuriser et réguler l'espace numérique (Law aiming to secure and regulate the digital space) of 21 May 2024, Articles 10 et seq. of the Loi pour la confiance dans l'économie numérique (Law on confidence in the digital economy) gave the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) the power to impose financial penalties against and block or delist pornographic websites that remain accessible to minors in violation of Article 227-24...

The decree issued by the Ministry of Culture publishing the release window agreement of 6 February 2025 extends for three years the previous agreement signed in 2022, which has now expired. Although the parties wished to maintain the general principles of the previous agreement, the position of individual broadcasters may change depending on their commitment to film funding. The 2022 agreement, which has now been renewed, shortened the distribution time for films following their release in cinemas to four months for sales and rentals (DVD, VOD, Blu-ray), six months for Canal+ and OCS (compared...

The provider of the C8 TV channel asked the Conseil d’Etat (Council of State) to annul the decision issued by the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (the French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) on 21 June 2023 fining it EUR 120,000 for programmes broadcast in 2022 and EUR 80,000 for programmes broadcast in 2023 that had breached the ban on surreptitious advertising. Article 9 of the decree of 27 March 1992, issued in accordance with Articles 27 and 33 of the Law of 30 September 1986 laying down the general principles defining the...

On 3 April 2023, Kanra Publishing France, owner of the quarterly magazine Playboy, lodged a complaint with the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (the French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) after the television service BFM TV, broadcast photographs and excerpts from an interview with Marlène Schiappa, who held a government post at the time, a few days before publication of the magazine for which they were intended, without the consent of the holders of the rights to the publication and its content. After ARCOM rejected the complaint,...

In a decision adopted on 28 February 2024 on the basis of Article 30-1 of the Law of 30 September 1986, the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (the French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) issued a call for tenders for the allocation of 15 licences to operate digital terrestrial television (DTT) services. In a press release published on 24 July 2024, ARCOM announced that it had “shortlisted, as a preparatory measure,” 15 of the 25 eligible applicants and intended to negotiate agreements with them, an “indispensable...