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On 2 September 2020, the Minister of Culture granted approval for Paul Verhoeven’s film “Benedetta” to be shown in cinemas to audiences over the age of 12, as recommended by the Film Classification Commission. The Pornostop organisation subsequently asked the minister to review the “12” rating given to the film, but did not receive a reply. It therefore asked the Paris Administrative Court to annul, on the grounds of misuse of power, the decision to reject its request that was implied by the Minister of Culture’s lack of response. It also asked the court to order...

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...