Fight agains sports piracy

The scheme is open to holders of the audiovisual exploitation rights to a sports competition or event (as provided for in the French Sports Code), i.e. sports federations and organizers of sporting events mentioned in the case of sports events or competitions they organize, and where appropriate, assignees of these rights, i.e. audiovisual communication companies and professional sports leagues, where they are assignees of the marketing of audiovisual exploitation rights to professional sports competitions.

Rights holders are thus entitled, in the event of serious and repeated infringement of their audiovisual exploitation rights by an online public communication service whose principal objective, or one of whose principal objectives, is the unauthorized diffusion of sports competitions or events, to apply to the courts for all proportionate measures likely to prevent or halt such infringement, against any person likely to contribute to remedying it.

In order to implement and update these measures for the duration of the injunction, it is the responsibility of the rights holder concerned to provide Arcom with identification data for the services in question. Arcom's sworn agents must then either ascertain that the sports competition or event to be protected is being shown on the service in question, or that the service has such a diffusion as its principal objective, or as one of its principal objectives. The Authority then notifies the service's identification data to the persons mentioned in the judicial blocking order. In the event of difficulty, the matter may be referred to the judicial court, either in summary proceedings or on application, for an order to stop access to these services.

As with the scheme to fight agains "mirror" sites, Arcom invites stakeholders to sign agreements, which it periodically assesses, to implement the scheme.

• Model agreement adopted in application of IV of article L. 333-10 of the French Sports Code.

• Arcom's response to the European Commission's call for contributions on tackling online piracy of live content

In June 2024, the APPS (APPS) launched an awareness-raising campaign, produced with the support of Arcom, aimed at raising public awareness of the global consequences of sports-related contdnt piracy by making explicit the virtuous circle linking legal supply and the flourishing of professional and amateur, national and local sport.

The "Protège ton sport" campaign film, available below, was shown on radio stations as of June 8, 2024.