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TF1 Launches Legal Action Against Canal+ TV+ Platform
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Since the launch of its TV+ offer at 2 euros per month, CANAL+ has been playing the trouble in the French audiovisual landscape according to the Informed. This low-priced offer, which brings together the TNT and the replay channels, has prompted TF1, which sees it as a clear parasitism and an infringement of its rights [...]
TF1 launches legal action against Canal+ TV+ platform
TF1 has begun legal action against Canal+ over the platform’s low-cost TV offer. Canal launched TV+ in Spring 2024, offering subscribers access to around 80 different channels, at a cost of €2 a month. It was built around live and catchup channels, many of them already available terrestrially, but largely excluding its own content. TV+ has eaten into rival Molotov, which has its own 100 channel offer at €6.99 a month. TF1, which also runs netw…
Canal+ has launched a low-cost TV offer that TF1 does not like. La One has attacked its competitor and is demanding a crazy amount of compensation.Nothing goes no longer between TF1 and Canal+: the first channel has decided to attack its encrypted competitor for a low-cost TV offer that sees there parasitism and a violation of its intellectual property. The group belonging to Bouygues claims an astronomical sum as compensation.A TV offer from Ca…
TF1 launched a judicial attack against CANAL+ and its TV+ offer at 2 euros, accusing the encrypted channel of parasitism and infringement of its rights. The stakes ? Access to the free channels of the TNT, including those of the TF1 group, and an interpretation deemed too generous of a European regulation by CANAL+, which could cost the group of the front page, but also, in the long run, viewers.
Canal+ is sued by TF1, who accuses him of violating his neighbouring rights, with its TV+ platform. La One claims more than 6.5 million euros in damages.
On 19 July 2025, a new judicial front opened up in the world of French television. The private channel TF1 filed a complaint against Canal+, accusing it of broadcasting its content without authorization via its TV+ offer. Canal+ relies on TV+ at 2 euros to seduce subscribers Launched in May 2024, Canal+'s TV+ offer offers access to almost 80 channels, including the main channels of the TNT, thematic channels such as MTV, Infosport+, Planet+ or N…
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