In the European Parliament, the diagnosis is unanimous: content piracy, particularly live streaming, thrives on loopholes in the current framework and fuels a structured criminal economy. Rights holders…
Many artists and festivals are calling on the European Commission to use its future Digital Fairness Act, currently in preparation, to adopt concrete measures against the illegal resale…
The European Commission has been very active in defending the applicability of Article 4 of the Copyright Directive to generative AI, and in inviting rights holders to use…
Having failed to build champions, invest heavily in infrastructure, or anticipate technological disruptions, Europe has made digital sovereignty its watchword. Behind the proliferation of standards, summits, and so-called…
By exempting itself from Pillar II of the OECD agreement, Washington is not merely adjusting a technical device: it is gutting the multilateral tax compromise painstakingly built up…
To close the year, ElectronLibre publishes without retouch a demonstration of the capabilities of its AI tool – EL Compagnon – to synthesize and anticipate the major legislative,…
French authors, publishers, producers and collecting societies are showing their support for the proposed law aimed at establishing a presumption of exploitation of cultural content by AI systems.…
Recovered growth, agentic AI in focus, digital sovereignty in ambush: the 2026 outlook for the digital sector is brightening. But for Numeum, this economic quiver can only be…
In a tense context marked by a parliamentary inquiry, France Télévisions has voted for a balanced 2026 budget based on 140 million euros in savings to compensate for…
Supported financially and politically by the European Union since 2020, cited in the Media Freedom Act and deployed via several European and national programs, the Journalism Trust Initiative…
At a stormy hearing, Delphine Ernotte, combative but at times evasive, defended her balance sheet in the face of rapporteur Charles Alloncle’s accusations about France Télévisions’ financial situation,…
The first decision to apply the Digital Services Act (DSA) left out the most political aspect of the dossier: content moderation. A setback largely explained by the unfortunate…
Information is not an industrial product. Pluralism cannot be certified. And a private benchmark, which has absolutely nothing to do with an ISO standard, should never be used…
One year after the gradual entry into force of the Media Freedom Act, Europe is above all showing its inertia. From study to hearing, the observation is the…
While Emmanuel Macron is talking about the subject, the European Commission is quietly building a « hybrid ecosystem » – technical standards (C2PA), editorial guidelines (JTI), fact-checking networks…
In the wake of the failed dialogue between rights holders and AI developers, three senators are preparing an explosive proposal: introducing a presumption that copyrighted works were used…
By adopting the Convention on the co-production of series, the Council of Europe has endorsed an ambitious definition of independent production, against the will of the European Commission.…
The European Parliament has voted by a large majority in favor of a resolution calling for a massive tightening of online protection for minors: a harmonized minimum age…
This coming Thursday, an exceptional parliamentary commission will grill the heads and anchors of public broadcasting, revealing an institutional, financial and editorial tug-of-war between France Télévisions and the…
As the European Parliament finalizes the Voss report and the Commission prepares a review of the 2019 copyright directive, the Danish presidency delivers a long-awaited summary on generative…
The European Commission’s Digital Omnibus aligns a series of almost vital measures for European digital law. But behind the narrative of efficiency and competitiveness, Brussels is relaunching en…
Thirty years after Article 151 was written into the EU Treaty, enjoining the institutions to take cultural dimensions into account in all their policies, Brussels is finally getting…
The French National Assembly today announced the membership of the commission of inquiry into public broadcasting to examine its neutrality, operation and financing, against a backdrop of political…
The European Commission, with its Democracy Shield, announces the reopening of the 2019 Copyright Directive. The Democracy Shield unveiled yesterday by the European Commission marks an unexpected turning…
CISAC reveals in its World Report 2025 that creators’ revenues reached 13.97 billion euros in 2024, thanks to notable growth in digital collections, and highlights growing concerns over…
Koda, the Danish copyright management company, is filing suit against US platform Suno for illegally using works by Danish artists in the training of its music AI models.…
Discussions on Axel Voss’ report on artificial intelligence and copyright continue to divide the European Parliament. Beyond the fundamental disagreements, it is now the internal political mechanics of…
France was thinking of calming things down vis-à-vis the US by doubling the GAFA tax rather than quintupling it, but we already know that Washington won’t bend. Tensions…
Grokipedia, launched by Elon Musk, aims to revolutionize access to knowledge thanks to artificial intelligence that generates and updates content in real time, challenging Wikipedia’s collaborative and sometimes…
