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At its plenary assembly on 28 June 2018, the French national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel - “the CSA”) decided to issue an official warning to RT France (the French-language outlet of Russian international news channel RT) regarding its failure to ensure honesty, rigour and diversity of points of view in its television news bulletin on 13 April 2018, which was mainly devoted to the situation in Syria. The bulletin included a report entitled Attaques simulées (“Simulated Attacks”), which contested whether the chemical attacks in the Syrian region of Eastern...

The audiovisual production company that produced the television series “Le bureau des légendes”, which has been broadcast on Canal Plus since 2015 (with season four set to be shown later this year) initiated urgent proceedings against the publisher of a collection of books entitled “La série des series” after discovering that a book entitled “Le bureau des légendes - Politique du secret” was about to go on sale. The book’s cover included not only the title of the work but also its word mark and figurative mark “Le bureau des légendes”, which had been registered by the production company in relation...

In three decisions issued on 18 June 2018, the Conseil d’Etat (the Council of State - a body of the French Government that acts both as legal adviser to the executive branch and as the Supreme Court for administrative justice) ruled on appeals lodged by the television channel C8 against three heavy sanctions imposed last year by the French national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel - “the CSA”) following inappropriate behaviour during the programmes “Touche pas à mon poste” and “TPMP! Baba hot line”. The Conseil d’Etat quashed one of the sanctions and upheld the...

Because France Télévisions is a public broadcasting body, its television channels are under a ‘must-carry’ obligation as provided for in Article 34-2 of France’s Freedom of Communication Act. In addition to conventional terrestrial broadcasting, France Télévisions also offers the possibility of viewing its television channels via streaming on its Internet site. The company Playmédia operates an Internet site on which it offers, inter alia, the live streaming of a number of television channels, including those operated by France Télévisions. There is no charge for access to the site; Playmédia uses...

On 4 June 2018, Minister for Culture Françoise Nyssen presented her plan for the reform of the public audiovisual sector - one of the election promises of the President of the Republic. The Minister explained the Government’s approach, which is based on work carried out collectively over several months by the representatives of the six companies in the public audiovisual sector (Ina, France Médias Monde, Radio France, Arte, TV5 Monde, and France Télévisions). She stated that the “transformation of content” ought to be the priority: “[I]n this period of digital upheaval, we must give priority to...