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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...

The CNews programme “Morandini Live”, broadcast on 28 September 2023, dealt with a newspaper’s claim that parents of Muslim schoolchildren had persuaded school leaders in Pau to provide their children with a prayer room during a school trip. This story was told to illustrate what was presented as a broader phenomenon, i.e. the failure to respect the principle of secularism in schools, which was the subject of a studio debate. A banner containing the words “Pau: school gives in to pressure from Muslim parents” was also displayed throughout the debate. After examining...

Valve Corporation, an American company, offers, via the ‘Steam’ platform, an online distribution service for digital content such as video games, developed by Valve or third parties, software, films and television series that can be downloaded to the user's computer, as well as associated services such as functions allowing users to exchange with other Internet users or to participate in games with several players. To use this platform, subscribers must download software and accept the Steam Subscription Agreement. The online availability of video games and related services was...

Today, the vast majority of television viewers watch audiovisual content on smart TVs and other connected devices. The interfaces on these devices are operated by a variety of companies, including Internet access providers and their boxes, smart TV manufacturers and app stores that aggregate numerous audiovisual services. Viewers are therefore finding it more and more difficult to access their favourite services and programmes quickly and easily. In order to address the problems that this creates in terms of pluralism and cultural diversity, ARCOM has adopted two decisions on the visibility...