National regulations
LCEN (France)
Loi pour la Confiance dans l'Économie Numérique (2004), French law that defines the legal regime for online platforms, including their liability for hosted content and their moderation obligations.
LCEN (Loi pour la Confiance dans l’Économie Numérique, 2004) is the French law that sets the legal regime for online platforms hosting user content. Pre-DSA, it was the primary text governing how a French news publisher had to handle reader comments. Post-DSA, it remains in force for the parts not superseded by EU law.
Key provisions still relevant
- Liability regime : the publisher hosting reader comments is not liable for the content as long as they act diligently when notified of illegal content (the “host” regime, not the “publisher” regime).
- Notice mechanism : a formal notice from a third party (with specific required elements) starts the takedown clock.
- Identification : platforms must keep the technical identifying data of contributors (account, IP, timestamp) for legal-request purposes.
How Logora handles LCEN
LCEN-compliant moderation flow is the French default in Logora :
- Notice form (more structured than the DSA Article 16 default) accepts the formal LCEN notice fields when received from a third-party lawyer or rights-holder.
- Identification log is kept on every contribution per the 1-year retention rule.
- Diligent action is the AI-first pipeline + 15% human review, with a documented SLA per contract.
LCEN does not require the publisher to anonymise comments, many publishers keep editorial archives indefinitely under the “editorial archive” exception. Logora supports both retention models.