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On 14 September, Netflix and the professional organisations representing the audiovisual creation sector (USPA, SPI, AnimFrance, SATEV, SEDPA, SACD and SCAM) announced that they had signed a partnership agreement as part of the investment obligations laid down in the so-called SMAD (On-demand Audiovisual Media Services) Decree of 20 June 2021. The decree, which brought the EU’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive into French law, sets out in detail the obligations for foreign on-demand video platforms that target French audiences to help fund cinematographic and audiovisual production. The...

On 24 July 2023, one month before the European Digital Services Act (DSA) came into force for the largest online platforms and search engines, the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (the French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) published its 2022 review of the resources deployed by providers to combat the dissemination of hate content online. Based on providers’ observations and reports submitted in response to a questionnaire, the review describes the various tools and procedures put in place to combat misuse of the largest online...

The company responsible for TV channel CNews asked the Conseil d’Etat (Council of State) to annul two formal notices issued by the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (the French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) on 10 May 2022, ordering it to meet the obligations contained in its licence agreement concerning honesty of information and control of its programmes. The first formal notice followed the broadcast, during the programme “Les Points sur les i” in November 2021, of a sequence in which a professor of medicine,...

Under the new law no. 2023-566 of 7 July 2023 “establishing digital majority and combating online hate”, children under 15 will need their parents’ consent to join a social network. The law also enshrines in French legislation (Article 1 IV of the Loi pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique (Law on confidence in the digital economy – LCEN) of 21 June 2004) the definition of a social networking service as “a platform that enables end users to connect and communicate with each other, share content and discover other users and content across...

On 3 March 2022, as part of his remit under the Law of 30 July 2020 and the Decree of 7 October 2021 aimed at preventing minors from accessing pornographic websites, the president of the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) ordered several Internet access providers to appear before the president of the Paris judicial court. He asked the court, ruling on the merits under the accelerated procedure, to order the ISPs to block the websites Pornhub, Tukif, Xhamster, Xnxx and Xvidéo so they could...