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At its plenary assembly on 8 September, the board of the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (the French audiovisual regulator – CSA) decided to ask audiovisual media to start measuring the amount of airtime given to essayist and polemicist Eric Zemmour in relation to the national political debate from the following day. Zemmour, who appears to be on the verge of standing in the presidential election, had been making daily appearances on the programme “Face à l’info” broadcast on channel C8 and watched by around 700 000 viewers between 7pm and 8pm each...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has delivered a controversial judgment with regard to the criminal liability for posts on Facebook. It found that the criminal conviction of a politician for failing to promptly delete hate speech, posted by others, from his public Facebook account, did not violate the right to freedom of expression as guaranteed under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The case concerned the criminal conviction of Julien Sanchez, a politician of the radical right-wing Rassemblement National (National Rally— RN), who was standing...

The Syndicat des éditeurs de presse magazine (Magazine Press Publishers’ Union – SEPM), the Alliance de Presse d'Information Générale (General Press Alliance – APIG) and the AFP news agency have appealed to the French competition authority, accusing Google of infringing the interim measures imposed against it on 9 April 2020. The competition authority had found that, following the adoption of the Law of 24 July 2019 creating a neighbouring right for press publishers and agencies, Google had unilaterally decided to stop posting article excerpts, photographs...

As expected, since it constitutes one of the key elements of the current reforms resulting from the transposition of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, the on-demand audiovisual media services (SMAD) decree was published and entered into force on 1 July 2021. Under the decree, foreign video on demand (VOD) platforms aimed at French audiences can be made subject to the same rules on financial contributions to cinematographic and audiovisual production as French-based services by way of derogation from the country-of-origin principle (Article 43-7 of the Law of 30 September 1986). The decree...

On 29 July, the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image – CNC) adopted eight new support measures designed to stimulate film exploitation, production and distribution, thanks to one-off state funding totalling EUR 90 million. The CNC president commented, "The public authorities are fully aware of the health pass’s impact on cinema attendance and the entire film industry. The CNC will be watching how the situation develops very closely, so we can ensure the health pass is successfully implemented while, at...