Section 3: Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority

I.-When a final court decision has ordered any measure to prevent access to an online public communication service pursuant to Article L. 336-2, the Autorité de Régulation de la Communication Audiovisuelle et Numérique (French Audiovisual and Digital Communications Regulatory Authority), on application by a rights holder who is a party to the court ruling, may require any person covered by the ruling, for a period that may not exceed that…

As part of its regulatory and monitoring role in the fields of technical measures for the protection and identification of works and objects protected by copyright or related rights, the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique performs the following functions: 1° It ensures that the technical measures referred to in Article L. 331-5 do not, as a result of their mutual incompatibility or their inability to interoperate,…

Any software publisher, any technical system manufacturer and any service operator may, in the event of refusal of access to information essential to interoperability, ask the Audiovisual and Digital Communications Regulatory Authority to guarantee the interoperability of existing systems and services, while respecting the rights of the parties, and to obtain from the holder of the rights to the technical measure the information essential to such interoperability. From the date…

Any person benefiting from the exceptions mentioned in 2° of Article L. 331-28 or any approved legal entity representing that person may refer to the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique any dispute concerning the restrictions that the technical protection measures defined in Article L. 331-5 place on the benefit of the said exceptions.

I.- Legal entities and establishments open to the public referred to in 7° of Article L. 122-5 that make reproductions or representations of a protected work or object suitable for disabled people may refer to the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique any dispute relating to the transmission of printed texts in the form of a digital file. II.-As part of its role in facilitating access for…