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Two decisions handed down on 17 June 2015 by the Conseil d’État have cancelled the decisions made last July by the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory authority - CSA) which refused the DTTV channels LCI and Paris Première authorisation to switch to freeview. Article 42-3 of the Act of 30 September 1986, as amended by the Act of 15 November 2013, enables the audiovisual regulatory authority to authorise a switch from pay TV to freeview (or vice versa) by waiving the standard procedure which provides for allocating a freeview DTTV frequency after first calling for applicants...

On 6 May 2015, the audiovisual groups TF1, Canal +, M6 and France Télévisions, as well as the Association de Lutte contre la Piraterie Audiovisuelle (association to combat audiovisual piracy - ALPA) sent a letter to the CEO’s of Facebook and Twitter pointing out the need to introduce filtering mechanisms and steps to combat piracy on their sites. Copies were also sent to Minister for Culture, Fleur Pellerin. The representatives of the main French editors and producers of audiovisual and cinematographic works said they were alarmed by the new functions set up by both Facebook (368 million videos...

The Decree implementing the reform of the scheme for contribution to independent audiovisual production, following on from the Act of 15 November 2013 on the independence of the public-sector audiovisual scene, was published on 29 April 2015. The aim of the reform was to allow editors of television services to hold producer shares in those audiovisual works for which they have provided a considerable proportion of the financing. The Decree defines this “considerable proportion” as 70% of the production estimate for an audiovisual work, and lays down the conditions for television service editors...

There has been a further development in the dispute between Playmédia, the editor of the Play TV site, and France Télévisions. The Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory authority - CSA) was alerted by Play TV, which broadcasts nearly seventy television channels live and by streaming, of the repeated refusal by the public-sector audiovisual group to contract with it to carry the channels France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5 and France Ô. Playmédia claimed the benefit of the provisions of Article 34-2 of the Act of 30 September 1986, which introduced a must-carry obligation...

The Grand Chamber has overruled an earlier finding of non-violation of the right to freedom of expression of a lawyer (Chamber, Fifth Section, 11 July 2013). With an extensively elaborated reasoning, the Grand Chamber unanimously came to the conclusion that the applicant lawyer’s conviction for the defamation of two investigative judges violated Article 10 of the Convention. It found that the lawyer, Morice, had expressed value judgments in the newspaper Le Monde with a sufficient factual basis and that his remarks concerning a matter of public interest had not exceeded the limits of the...