Culture

The AI summit organized by the Elysée next week features a round table on creation, with a vague title and whose content and participants are still a mystery.…

Poland, which holds the Council of the EU presidency until June, presented its cultural program. There was little mention of AI, and more of the European program Creative…

The subject is technical but fundamental to the AI dossier in Europe: Germany is backing a revision of the 2019 Copyright Directive to remove the « text and…

Many MEPs reaffirmed their support for creators at an event organized by GESAC yesterday in Brussels. Commission Vice-President Henna Virkkunen delivered her first-ever speech to the cultural sector.…

Disney is taking a step in the direction of cinema, and is now becoming a key player in France with significant financial commitments. All against a backdrop of…

ECSA publishes a report on the audiovisual sector’s contractual practices towards film music composers, denouncing « buy out » practices and coercive publishing on a European scale. The…

The various lawsuits initiated in the USA by copyright owners against generative AI developers for illegal use of their works in LLM training are in their early stages.…

The cultural sector is outraged by the European Commission’s lack of ambition to protect copyright when it comes to implementing the IA Act. To give effect to the…

Donald Trump’s announcements on the US exit from the OECD tax agreement put French taxes on US companies, including taxes funding the Centre national du cinéma and the…

As part of its report on the application of the 2018 Geoblocking Regulation, the European Court of Auditors recommends that the Commission rapidly assess, by 2026, whether the…

The CNC wants to calm things down by extending the agreements on media chronology for three years. In the age of platforms and streaming, media chronology seems to…

Deezer and Sacem have formalized their partnership to adopt the « Artist-Centric » remuneration model (ACPS) in order to better remunerate music authors, composers and publishers in France.…

French independent entertainment representatives are asking Rachida Dati to consider an anti-concentration law for their sector. They also believe that public funds and the ‘Pass Culture’ should not…

After a rebound in 2023, French cinema exports returned in 2024 to a lower level than before the health crisis. On the audiovisual side, in terms of releases,…

A few days before the presentation of Médiamétrie’s cross-media committee, which will notably integrate Netflix and YouTube, three experts publish a comprehensive work on audience measurement, studying its…

Consolidation, a focus on streaming, new alliances – that’s the agenda for the media industry in 2025, driven by Donald Trump and plenty of available cash. 2025 is…

Open AI has requested centralization of the eight copyright infringement lawsuits against it in the USA, giving ElectronLibre the opportunity to take stock of these complaints filed by…

In a report published yesterday, France Digitale proposes forcing authors to accept the training of generative AIs with their works, in return for a flat fee. Sacem responds…

The French Treasury has just published a depressing but realistic note on the ability of France, and more broadly Europe, to carve out a place for itself in…

In recent days, strong tensions have emerged between the Elysée on the one hand, and the Ministry of Culture and the creative sector on the other. At issue…

The authors of the report submitted today to the CSPLA recommend that for the AI Act’s transparency obligation to have a useful effect, the sufficiently detailed summary mentioned…

Poland will succeed Hungary as president of the EU Council, and intends to use the opportunity to show that it is a role model when it comes to…

A warning shot for the audiovisual industry, Canal+ announces the withdrawal of its pay-TV channels from DTT. With just a few months to go before its London listing,…

A prospective study commissioned by CISAC and carried out by PMP Strategy assesses the loss of income for creators linked to the emergence of generative AI tools. PMP…

The trading volume of NFTs is clearly on the rise as the year draws to a close. The attraction of these tokens goes hand in hand with a…

GEMA is the first authors’ society in the world to take legal action against a generative AI developer, and is taking on the biggest of them all right…

Laurence Farreng, at the Camille Awards, on the AI Act: « It’s a victory, but it won’t be enough ». At the Camille Awards ceremony in Paris, European…

The race is on. Who will be appointed president of France Télévisions next spring? All the signs point to Delphine Ernotte being re-elected for a third successive term.…

UMG sues Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for infringement. The major is claiming more than $500 million from its rival. What’s more, UMG is directly attacking Believe at…

The Commissioner-designate for Culture and Education added only meagre details to his mission statement, leaving observers wanting more. From his speech, we can only draw a few indications…