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Many significant developments for the cultural sector emerged from the recent meeting of EU ministers for education, youth, culture, and sports, held on 12 and 13 May 2025. The Council of the EU adopted conclusions on assessing the legal framework for audiovisual media services and video-sharing platform services, in anticipation of the upcoming evaluation of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD). Additionally, the Council adopted conclusions on supporting young artists and cultural and creative professionals as they begin their careers. Key priorities for the audiovisual sector: Ministers...

AGCOM, the Italian Communications Authority and Digital Services Coordinator, has officially approved the regulation on age verification for access to online platforms providing adult content. The measure aims to ensure minors are effectively protected from the dangers of the internet. The new regulation, annexed to Resolution No. 96/25/CONS, sets out the compulsory procedures for video-sharing platforms and websites offering adult content in Italy to verify users’ age (so-called age assurance or age verification). This initiative enforces Article 13-bis of Legislative Decree No. 123 of...

On 27 March 2025, the UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, imposed a financial penalty of GBP 1.05 million on Fenix International Limited, the company behind OnlyFans, following an investigation into its age assurance practices. The penalty stems from Fenix’s failure to provide accurate and complete responses to two statutory information requests concerning its age verification systems on the adult content platform. Following an investigation launched in May 2024 under the video-sharing platform (VSP) framework (introduced in 2020 by Part 4B of the Communications Act 2003), Ofcom...

On 4 March 2025, the Dutch Media Authority (Commissariaat voor de Media) published the draft 2025 Policy Rule on the qualification of on-demand commercial media services (draft 2025 Policy Rule). It will replace the previous policy rule adopted in 2022 (2022 Policy Rule). Both the 2022 Policy Rule as well as the draft 2025 Policy Rule are based on the Dutch Media Act of 2008 (the Act), which was amended in 2020 in the course of the implementation of revised Directive 2010/13/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2010 on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by...

Amended by the Loi visant à sécuriser et réguler l'espace numérique (Law aiming to secure and regulate the digital space) of 21 May 2024, Articles 10 et seq. of the Loi pour la confiance dans l'économie numérique (Law on confidence in the digital economy) gave the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) the power to impose financial penalties against and block or delist pornographic websites that remain accessible to minors in violation of Article 227-24...