Marc du Moulin, ECSA: « Picture music composers are still faced with deleterious contractual practices despite the 2019 directive ».
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 organization calls on the sector to unite, and on the European institutions to take action to ensure that these practices, which are contrary to…
DeepSeek: The Operation to Disrupt U.S. AI Dominance
The war for AI between the USA and China has begun in spectacular fashion. China unveils a very interesting model, but one that raises a certain amount of skepticism. Has China created the marvellous Unicorn of AI, greedy but incredibly efficient? There are reasons to doubt it. In the meantime,…
IA Act: culture worried that the Commission’s latest draft does not respect EU copyright law
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 obligations that the IA Act places on AI developers vis-à-vis copyright holders, the European Commission is due to adopt a "Code of…
Trump: French taxes on digital services, CNC and streaming in the spotlight
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 Centre national de la musique, in medium-term jeopardy. Donald Trump does not want third countries to apply discriminatory and disproportionate taxes on…
European Court of Auditors: the end of audiovisual geo-blocking must be examined by 2026
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 scope of the regulation should be extended to audiovisual content. It also considers that this exemption undermines the clarity of the text:…
Media chronology: 3 years of reflection
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 have come straight out of another era, when pay-TV channels bought the right to follow the cinema at a very high price.…