French Sports Code
In forceThe 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 which broadcasts them.
These extracts are broadcast free of charge during news programmes.
In all cases, their broadcast is accompanied by sufficient identification of the electronic public communication service that holds the right to exploit the event or competition.
The transfer of the right to exploit a sporting event or competition to an electronic public broadcasting service does not prevent the production and free broadcast by any radio broadcasting service, over all or part of the territory, live or deferred, of the oral commentary on this event or competition.
The Autorité de Régulation de la Communication Audiovisuelle et Numérique shall set the conditions for broadcasting the short extracts provided for in this article, after consulting the Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français and the organisers of sporting events mentioned in article L. 331-5.
