Promoting and protecting creativity

Arcom is responsible for a range of missions aimed at developing French and European production and creation in the audiovisual media.

French audiovisuel communication services contribute to the exposure and financing of French and European creation.

For radio services, this contribution takes the form of quotas for French-language songs.

For TV channels, it takes the form of diffusion quotas and obligations to invest in original French and European cinematographic and audiovisual works. For on-demand audiovisual media services, these are exhibition and promotion quotas, as well as obligations to invest in the production of cinematographic and audiovisual works of original French and European expression.

We are committed to ensuring that the obligations of audiovisual players are respected, and in so doing, we are committed to supporting cultural diversity by adapting this scheme to the digital media environment.

Arcom contributes to the fight agains online piracy by supporting the legal actions of rights holders. Its mission is to publish, after adversary proceedings, a list of services that seriously and repeatedly infringe royalties and neighbor rights.

Arcom has been endowed with the means to strengthen the scope of pass judgements against illegal services, in order to combat the phenomenon of "mirror sites", i.e. services similar to blocked sites which appear following the implementation of blocking measures, rendering such measures obsolete if not updated.

Graduated response is a scheme designed to ensure respect for copyright on the Internet, firstly by sending warnings and, in the event of failure, by transmitting to the judicial authorities the file revealing facts likely to characterize an infringement of copyright. Find out more about the graduated response in this section.

Arcom's mission is to regulate and monitor technological protection measures (TPMs) and the identification of works and objects protected by copyright or neighboring rights. It is also responsible for ensuring that TPMs do not prevent the effective implementation of interoperability, nor hinder the benefit of certain exceptions. In this context, Arcom may be called upon to issue requests for opinions or dispute settlements.

La loi confère à l'Arcom une mission de conciliation essentielle pour les acteurs de l'audiovisuel et du numérique, des auteurs aux distributeurs. Contrairement au règlement de différend, cette mission est dépourvue de pouvoir d'injonction et vise uniquement l'atteinte d'un accord amiable sur un litige constitué (conditions de diffusion, contrats, cession de droits, etc.).