Section 2: Freedom of dissemination

Journalists and staff from written or audiovisual media companies have free access to sports venues, subject to constraints directly linked to the safety of the public and sportsmen and women, and to the capacity of the venue. However, unless authorised by the organiser, electronic public communication services that do not hold the exploitation rights may only capture images that are separate from those of the sporting event or competition itself….

The transfer of the right to exploit a sporting event or competition to an electronic public communication service may not prevent other electronic public communication services from informing the public. The seller or purchaser of this right may not object to the broadcasting by other electronic public communication services of brief extracts taken free of charge from the images of the transferee service(s) and freely chosen by the non-transferee service…

The transfer of the right to exploit a sporting event or competition to an electronic public communication service does not prevent the partial or full broadcast of this event or competition by another electronic public communication service when the service transferring the right to exploit does not broadcast live significant extracts of the sporting event or competition. A decree in the Conseil d’Etat, issued after consultation with the Autorité de…

Major sporting events are broadcast under the conditions defined by articles 20-2 and 20-3 of law no. 86-1067 of 30 September 1986 on freedom of communication.