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The UK Government has introduced amendments to the Digital Economy Bill which will enable the blocking of pornographic websites which do not put into place age verification measures to ensure that they are not accessed by persons under 18. The Digital Economy Bill contains measures to require that pornographic sites include age verification measures. If these are not in place, pornographic content made available on a commercial basis will constitute “offending material”. The system will be supervised by the British Board of Film Classification, which is responsible for the age classification of...

On 7 December, the Senate finally adopted, by 213 votes to 0, the bill tabled by a Green Party MP banning commercial advertising in children’s programmes on public television. Article 1 of the bill supplements Article 14 of the Act of 30 September 1986 and states that advertising in these programmes will be regulated under a Council of State decree. It also gives the national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) a monitoring and advisory role. Each year, the CSA will have to submit to parliament “a report evaluating the actions taken by audiovisual communication...

After concluding consultations with stakeholders and the interested public, the Council for Electronic Media on 8 September 2016 adopted Recommendations for the protection of children and the safe use of electronic media. The document stems from the obligation of developed societies to provide children and adolescents with conditions that enable them to achieve their full potential. The role of institutions is to help systematically parents and others who take care of children in their daily efforts to provide a secure, supportive and healthy environment for the development of children and young...

The Minister for Culture had appealed to the Conseil d'Etat to overturn the decision delivered by the Administrative Court of Appeal on 8 December 2015 which, in response to an application from a traditionalist Roman Catholic association, cancelled the classification licence that included a ban on the film being shown to anyone under 12 years old and required the warning “Contains numerous realistic sex scenes likely to be disturbing to young audiences”. The warning and the ban had been issued by the French Classification Board in July 2013 for the film ‘La vie d'Adèle: Chapitres 1 et 2’ (English...

The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on 11 July 2016 that it had reached a settlement with Warner Brothers Entertainment (“Warner Brothers”) to resolve allegations that it deceived consumers during a marketing campaign for a video game. The FTC’s complaint stems from an online marketing campaign that Warner Brothers undertook in 2014 to generate publicity within the gaming community for the new release of Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, a fantasy role-playing game. Warner Brothers paid “influencers” tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars and told them how to promote the...