{"id":512,"date":"2015-11-06T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/?p=512"},"modified":"2016-10-17T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T15:01:23","slug":"the-french-government-will-recognize-the-existence-of-esport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/2015\/11\/06\/the-french-government-will-recognize-the-existence-of-esport\/","title":{"rendered":"The French government will recognize the existence of esport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally! The French state has at long last looked into the topic that is so important to us: electronic sports! The French government has even promised to \u201cofficially\u201d recognize \u201cesport\u201d. Axelle Lemaire, secretary of state for digital affairs, announced the news during a presentation of her digital laws project on November 6<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<!--more--><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During her conference, the secretary of state explained that public consultation has allowed them to add 11 articles in the project of law. Amongst those added, article 38 is all about video-game competitions!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The article mentions an amendment requested by the SELL syndicate in France: video-game competitions will not be comparable to gambling games which are money-based. Remember the movement started a few weeks back: this will be a huge sigh of relief for professionals of the sector who were worried that their activities would be controlled as such. However, outside of the spoken promise of the state secretary and contrary to what some websites have announced, electronic sport in France does not have an official status yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The note written on the project of law is clear on the topic:<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201cit is necessary to shed light in the code for interior security that could identify this as money-based games. Legal work is currently under way in order to achieve a strong enough legal redaction of the text.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/np3BPqZQD_E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ministry\u2019s cabinet in France seems to have fully understood the importance of electronic sport today, both in terms of competition intensity and the financial dimension. \u00a0Aur\u00e9lien Perol, Axelle Lemaire\u2019s communication counselor specifies: <em>\u201ctoday we have acted out a political wish. We want to recognize video game competition as a sport discipline. We have received the backing of the prime minister to include this text into a project of law.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We do not have any precise information yet about the calendar for this, but a first piece of redaction work of the text of law as well as a parliamentary mission will be launched in the next few days. Who could be the first actors to be heard? We know that a work-force composed of the SELL and other professionals of the industry have already been consulted by the secretary of state. Let\u2019s hope that everyone can be heard, that associations as well as players will be able to express their opinion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obviously we will have more information in the next few days. Don\u2019t worry, SmartCast is on the case!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Axelle-Lemaire-Myriam-El-Khomri.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-487 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Axelle-Lemaire-Myriam-El-Khomri.jpg\" alt=\"Axelle Lemaire-Myriam El-Khomri\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Axelle-Lemaire-Myriam-El-Khomri.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Axelle-Lemaire-Myriam-El-Khomri-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Axelle-Lemaire-Myriam-El-Khomri-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Axelle-Lemaire-Myriam-El-Khomri-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Axelle-Lemaire-Myriam-El-Khomri-1000x500.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Axelle-Lemaire-Myriam-El-Khomri-500x250.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Axelle-Lemaire-Myriam-El-Khomri-1400x700.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally! The French state has at long last looked into the topic that is so important to us: electronic sports! The French government has even promised to \u201cofficially\u201d recognize \u201cesport\u201d. Axelle Lemaire, secretary of state for digital affairs, announced the news during a presentation of her digital laws project on November 6th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,728],"tags":[73,74,552],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-sport","category-news","tag-e-sport-en","tag-esport-en","tag-gamer-en"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}