On 1 January, the Superior Audiovisual Council becomes the regulatory authority for audiovisual and digital communication. Major video platforms on demand and social networks enter its regulatory field.
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Regulation of social networks, supervision of Netflix, Amazon, Disney + and other video-on-demand platforms, fight against piracy and hatred online, protection of pornography minors … Rarely a regulatory authority n ‘will have seen its powers spread as substantially. The 1 January, the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) has become the regulatory authority for audiovisual and digital communication (ARCOM).
“In three years, seven laws have expanded our attributions. It is unpublished. The ARCOM will make it possible to better marry the audiovisual issues of its time, taking into account streaming platforms and major players of the Digital “welcomes Roch-Olivier Maistre, his chair since 2019, whose term ends in 2025.” The risk exists that ARCOM becomes the internet police “, however, warned Bastien the Querrec, the quadrature of the quadrature. Net, Association of Defense and Promotion of Rights and Freedoms on the Internet. “This is a new form of regulation. We are not on the control of content as in the audiovisual, but we will set obligations of means to these great actors,” disputes its president.
The ARCOM first marks the Merger of the CSA with the High Authority for the dissemination of the works and the protection of rights on the Internet (HADOPI), which will pass the numbers of the new entity from 300 to 355 employees, for a budget of 46 million euros. The state did not grant an additional envelope to the regulator, yet endowed with new prerogatives. “I will ask for a dozen additional hirings”, Advance Roch-Olivier Maistre. The ARCOM will continue the mission of Hadopi, which, in ten years, sent 13 million warnings, and pronounced 517 judgments. Among the novelties, the regulator will be able to establish black lists of hacking sites. “We will no longer be obliged to go by deference”, welcomes Frédéric Delacroix, General Delegate of the Association against Audiovisual Piracy.
“The dialogue continues”
This is especially the entry of video platforms on demand in the French creation system that is judged “historical” by Roch-Olivier Maistre. The CSA President signed at the beginning of December with Netflix, Disney +, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV + of the agreements setting their investment obligations in audiovisual production and French cinema, or 250 million and 300 million euros for 2022. An arrival that has not been done smoothly, the right holders judging that the CSA had privileged platforms to their detriment. “I will seize the Council of State to cancel these conventions,” Fulmine Pascal Rogard, General Delegate of the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers. “The dialogue continues with producers,” Moderates Roch-Olivier Maistre.
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