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On 26 July 2017, the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (the French audiovisual regulator – CSA) imposed one of the largest fines it had ever inflicted on a television channel for inappropriate conduct on air. Pursuant to Articles 42 and 42-1 of the Act of 30 September 1986, it fined the C8 channel (Groupe Canal Plus) EUR 3 million following a sequence broadcast during the programme Touche pas à mon poste two months earlier. During the programme, its presenter had encouraged people contacted by telephone to talk about their private lives and sexual activities in very crude...

At a joint committee meeting held at the French Parliament on 22 October, MPs and senators failed to reach agreement on the outstanding provisions of the Projet de loi portant diverses dispositions d’adaptation du droit national au droit de l’Union européenne (Bill covering various provisions to adapt national law to European Union law – DDADUE). The bill is designed to enable the government to transpose the European Union’s Audiovisual Media Services, Copyright and Cab-Sat Directives by ordinance. Having been adopted at first reading by the Senate on 8 July 2020...

On 14 October, as the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, Emmanuel Macron imposed a curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. in France’s eight largest cities and throughout Ile-de-France. Much to the disappointment of film industry representatives, evening cinema screenings, which are crucial for cinema operators, were therefore prohibited. On 22 October, the President of the Republic extended the curfew to a further 38 départements. Six days later, he announced a nationwide lockdown, including the closure of all cinemas. On 22 October, as part of the support and assistance measures...

In a case concerning freedom of political expression and the right to protest, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found that the conviction of pro-Palestine activists had violated their right to freedom of expression as guaranteed by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The activists were convicted for incitement to economic discrimination on account of their campaign aimed at boycotting products imported from Israel. The 11 applicants in this case are members of the “Collectif Palestine 68”, which is a local relay for the international campaign “Boycott,...

On 10 September, the European Commission presented its evaluation report on the Code of Practice on Disinformation, which was launched at the end of 2018. The report takes into account the annual self-evaluation reports of the platforms that have signed the code (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Mozilla and TikTok). These platforms have set up policies aimed in particular at reducing advertising opportunities and economic incentives for distributors of online disinformation and at creating functionalities that give prominence to reliable information. The report notes that the quality of the...