Politique

Writers, actors, singers, music and film authors have united to say « niet » to training generative AIs with unlicensed copyrighted works. The declaration is as short as…

The documentary authors are appealing to parliamentarians for help, asking them to vote, as quickly as possible, for a renewal of public broadcasting funding through VAT, to avoid…

At the dawn of a new European mandate, songwriters are calling on the institutions to deliver on their commitments to music creators. The European Composer and Songwriter Alliance…

The European Commission has just begun the process of applying the AI Act to generative AI, involving nearly a thousand stakeholders. Many of them are complaining, whether about…

Arcom highlights in its report on artificial intelligence how it will profoundly transform creation and information, notably with the rise of generative AI, while raising ethical and legal…

The European Parliament today held a briefing on the hearings of future European Commissioners. In view of the timetable, the future Commission looks unlikely to be up and…

The Prime Minister barely scratched the surface of culture in his speech to MPs, even though many issues are at stake for public broadcasting, cinema, copyright, etc.. Michel…

California is home to the tech mammoths of Silicon Valley, who are currently betting big on artificial intelligence. Yesterday, the state’s governor refused to sign a law framing…

New European Commission: no major cultural or digital posts for France If the draft European Commission presented today by Ursula von der Leyen is confirmed by the European…

Thierry Breton slams the door on the European Commission a few weeks before the end of his mandate. He accuses Ursula von der Leyen of being behind the…

With his report on European competitiveness, Mario Draghi makes a crude and honest assessment of the EU’s current economic situation: things are going badly. As a convinced Europhile,…

Ireland will have to recover €13 billion from Apple after all. Contrary to what the General court ruled in 2020, the Court of Justice of the EU has…

The creative sector is coordinating its efforts and demands as part of the discussions surrounding the implementing acts for the new European AI Act, with a view to…

The first meeting of the European Parliament’s CULT Committee was an opportunity to sweep up a series of subjects relevant to the creative industries at the start of…

In a complicated political context, with no new COM or additional funding, France Télévisions is making its case for next season. President Delphine Ernotte is not ruling out…

As Competition Commissioner for ten years, Margrethe Vestager will have left her mark for her honesty and decisiveness, but also for her ability to over-interpret the rules, which…

Article 323-3-2 of the French Penal Code allows administrators of platforms on which illegal things are happening to be sent to prison. Problem: European law, since the e-commerce…

The European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education will hold the very first meeting of its new mandate next week. On its agenda are conversations with the heads…

Numeum notes the uncertainties born of the dissolution and subsequent lack of a majority. While digital players have retained most of their allies in the National Assembly, they…

Mark Zuckerberg said he regretted that Meta had bowed to pressure from the US government by agreeing to censor content on the grounds that it was disinformation or…

In France, the creative sector has always been reluctant to talk, and a fortiori to ask anything, of the elected representatives of the Rassemblement national. But the considerable…

The European Commission’s handling of the cultural sector is currently split between DG Connect and DG Education, Youth and Culture (DG EAC). The question of a complete transfer…

As part of its application of the European « Media » audiovisual aid program, the European Commission has reportedly, without consulting stakeholders, public institutions or member states, taken…

Apple announced this weekend that certain functions of its future OS will not be available in the European Union. The Cupertino-based firm is invoking the DMA’s interoperability requirements.…

Fearful for their sector in the face of the rise of Marine Le Pen’s party, French cultural players are taking up their pens to address either French voters…

The European Writers’ Council deplores the limited impact of the fair remuneration obligation introduced by the 2019 Copyright Directive on writers’ earnings. « One of the multiple jobs…

The Rassemblement National’s plan to privatize public broadcasting could be thwarted by European law: as the Commission reminds us, European legislation on press freedom adopted a few months…

The dissolution of the Assemblée Nationale by Emmanuel Macron will cause cascading agenda difficulties at European level, to the detriment of France’s interests. Indeed, the French legislative elections…

Scenarios concerning a sell-off of public broadcasting, confirmed by deputy Sébastien Chenu, point to colossal difficulties for a Rassemblement National government. Emmanuel Macron’s spectacular decision to dissolve the…

The Haute Autorité Pour la Transparence de la Vie Publique confirms that it has opened a file concerning Cédric O. For several months, questions have been emerging about…