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Webgroup Czech Republic AS and NKL Associates SRO raised a priority question of constitutionality in support of their requests for the annulment of decision no. 2024-20 of 9 October 2024 of the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (the French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM). The ARCOM decision concerns the reference framework for determining the minimum technical requirements applicable to age verification systems designed to prevent minors from accessing pornographic content, and was issued in accordance with Article 10(I) of the Law of...

C8 lodged an appeal with the Conseil d’Etat (Council of State) against the EUR 300,000 fine imposed on it by the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (the French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) in respect of an episode of the programme “Touche pas à mon poste” broadcast on 5 October 2022. The host, Cyril Hanouna, had made offensive remarks about the Mayor of Paris, who had not been present in the studio at the time, in response to the decision not to install giant screens for the World Cup in Qatar. In particular,...

On 2 June, Rachida Dati, the French minister of culture, and Clara Chappaz, the French minister for artificial intelligence and digital technology, chaired the launch meeting of the consultation cycle between representatives of generative AI model developers and representatives of rights holders in the cultural and media sectors. Open until November, this consultation cycle, which will be co-piloted by Marc Bourreau, professor of economics, and Maxime Boutron, counsel at the Conseil d'État (Council of State), is designed to promote mutual understanding of the respective challenges...

On 6 March this year, the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) sent letters of observation to the providers of five services that allowed minors to access pornographic content without age verification. As stipulated in Article 10-1 of the Loi pour la confiance en l’économie numérique (Law on confidence in the digital economy), as amended by the Loi visant à sécuriser et réguler l'espace numérique (Law aiming to secure and regulate the digital space...

In accordance with the procedure provided for in section V of Article 10-1 of the Law of 21 June 2004 instituted by the Law of 21 May 2024, an internet service provider sought the annulment of a decision of 6 March 2025, in which the ARCOM president, pursuant to section III of Article 10-1, had notified it of a web address to which it had been ordered to block access within 48 hours for a period of two years, and asked it to redirect users wishing to access it to an ARCOM information page. In the alternative, the company asked the court to stay the proceedings and to refer eight questions to the...