French film agency ties public funding to human authorship and bars AI use with applicant material
The board of France's National Center for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC) approved new rules on 14 October 2026 that tie public funding to human authorship and limit the use of AI. Under the change, projects must show that a human author wrote or rewrote the script and the bible, and music and subtitle costs count only when they pay for authors' work. Committee members are also barred from feeding protected application materials into AI tools. The text was published in the Journal officiel on 31 October 2026.
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What does it mean?
If you want money from France's film agency, your project now needs a real human writer on the script, and a human composer if music is paid for. Committee members also cannot paste protected artistic material from applications into AI tools.
Who is affected?
Film, TV, animation and video game producers applying for CNC funding, and members of the CNC's evaluation committees.