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Tabled by Céline Boulay-Espéronnier, Sonia de La Provôté and Jérémy Bacchi on 17 September 2023 and adopted by the Senate on 14 February 2024, the bill on support for the French film industry was drawn up on the basis of a report by the same authors entitled “Cinema fights back: between resilience and cultural exception, an important art form with a future” (IRIS 2023-7:1/24). The bill aims firstly to make cinema operators’ lives easier by simplifying the management of unlimited-access cinema passes. Nearly 25 years after the passes were...

A few days before the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (the French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) launched a call for applications for frequency allocations, with the licences held by 15 national television services, including CNews, due to expire soon, the Conseil d’État (Council of State) issued an important decision strengthening the regulator’s powers to monitor audiovisual media services’ compliance with their obligations concerning the honesty, pluralism and independence of information. The Reporters...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided that a criminal conviction in France of the Swiss public intellectual and Islamologist Tariq Ramadan was not a violation of his right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Ramadan was convicted for having disseminated information about the identity of the alleged victim of a rape (X) for which he was facing trial in France. Ramadan had revealed X’s identity in a press release, during a TV interview and in a book. The ECtHR dismissed his complaint under Article 10 ECHR as manifestly...

The Canal Plus Group holds the exclusive rights to broadcast the French rugby championship, known as the "Top 14", on French soil, as well as live Premier League football matches in France and Monaco, and in other territories on a non-exclusive basis. It also holds exclusive rights to broadcast some Champions League matches, with the rights to other matches held by the beIN company. Having obtained a court ruling on 19 September 2023 that around 90 websites accessible in France were streaming live matches in numerous competitions more or less systematically and free of charge, in particular...

In a decision of 17 January 2024, the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (the French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) fined the CNews television channel EUR 50 000 for breaching its obligations to exercise honesty and rigour in the presentation and processing of information and to ensure that different viewpoints are expressed on controversial issues. During the programme Face à l'info broadcast on 26 September 2022, reference was made to an international ranking of the world’s safest cities published by the website Numbeo,...