Louise Bernard with Alexis Patri 10:27 am, December 01, 2021
The video posted on YouTube Tuesday by Eric Zemmour to formalize his candidacy for the 2022 presidential election raised many reactions from those whose images were used.
And in particular from many media, which protest and consider some legal remedies.
The newspaper
Le Parisien
, the information site
Le HuffPost
, the
Quotidien program
, the channels France 24 and Public Senate, the public audiovisual groups Radio France and France Télévisions, but also the National Audiovisual Institute (INA). Many French media whose images were used in the video posted Tuesday on YouTube by the polemicist Eric Zemmour to formalize his candidacy for the presidential election of 2022. Media which are numerous to affirm that no authorization had been requested and no fee has been paid. However, in France, the law requires it to be able to use the images.
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Various legal strategies
The campaign launch clip, which alternates shots where Eric Zemmour reads a speech with a multitude of extracts from films, archives and some shows, very quickly aroused the emotion of Gaumont cinemas.
On the media side, the journalist Clément Lanot, some of the videos shot in demonstration have been taken, reserves the right to prosecute the presidential candidate.
And threats of legal action followed one after the other on Tuesday.
Le Parisien
,
Le HuffPost
, France 24 and Public Senate regretted that their logos were used for political purposes.
Le Parisien
has also launched a complaint with YouTube to make the content that belongs to him inaccessible.
HuffPost
assigns Eric Zemmour.
France 24 asks for the immediate withdrawal of the images and "is studying legal remedies if his request is not followed up".
A video that no longer appears on television
For their part, INA, Radio France and France Télévisions made a joint declaration demanding payment of the rights, without considering legal proceedings. Unlike the
Daily
show
, an excerpt of which appears in Eric Zemmour's video. Its presenter Yann Barthès announced Tuesday evening legal proceedings. If the case was won, the money received would be donated to migrant aid associations, he said.
For its part, Eric Zemmour's team told AFP to use the "right of short quotation".
But, according to several copyright specialists, this right does not apply to clips of political campaigns.
The news channels BFMTV and LCI also had to stop broadcasting the clip during the day, for lack of rights to the images used by Eric Zemmour.