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On 9 May 2022, the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (which is responsible for scrutinising the work of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and its associated public bodies, including the BBC) published its report on influencer culture, following the conclusion of its inquiry into influencers’ power on social media. Whilst acknowledging the benefits and the significant returns that influencer culture brings to the UK economy, the Committee emphasised that the industry needs to be given more serious consideration by the government. In the words of...

In two decisions of 30 March 2022, the Norwegian Media Authority (NMA) instructed Norwegian operators of networks transmitting television in the Norwegian market, to block or hinder access to advertisements for certain betting websites from two Maltese betting companies, BLM Group Ltd and Trannel International Ltd. The order to block betting advertisements included the German Discovery channels FEM, MAX and VOX, and Eurosport Norge which is offered by the French company Eurosport S.A.S. The operators included in the decisions are the five largest operators of networks providing linear television...

Several noteworthy legal changes happened in the regulation of the audiovisual sector in Moldova at the end of 2021. On 4 November 2021 the Code of the Audiovisual Media of the Republic of Moldova (see IRIS 2019-3/24 and IRIS 2021-3/11) was amended to introduce new levers of parliamentary control. The amendments subject the Director-General of the public service broadcaster TRM to the political choice of the Parliament, including the decisions regarding his/her appointment, performance assessment, and dismissal. This parliamentary control replaces the control over these matters previously...

In a ruling of 24 February 2022 (not yet published), the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court – BGH) examined the legal boundaries of advertising for a tribute show in which cover versions of an artist’s songs are performed. The case concerned whether an event at which a Tina Turner lookalike sings Tina Turner hits can be advertised in a way that might create the impression that Turner herself is involved in or at least supportive of the show. Tina Turner had filed a lawsuit against the producer of a show in which the singer F. performed Turner’s greatest hits, asking for...

On 3 February 2022, the UK’s regulator of advertising across all media, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), published its research in harmful racial and ethnic stereotyping in UK advertising. The survey highlighted a number of important issues that participant consumers raised about the depiction of people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Ads that are likely to cause serious or widespread offence and/or harm owing to particular portrayals of race and ethnicity have long been regulated under the UK Code of Non-broadcast Advertising (CAP Code) and the Code of Broadcast...