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The activities of children under 16 whose image is disseminated via online video platforms are now regulated in France. This phenomenon often has significant economic and financial implications, either for the children’s families, who frequently generate a large income from it, or for the brands that use these videos as a new form of advertising. Before the recent introduction of a new law, videos of this type, which are filmed by parents and depict minors, were not regulated in any way. Unlike the work of children in the entertainment industry, for example, filming schedules and durations...

In August 2020, the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media – KJM) of the German Landesmedienanstalten (state media authorities) updated its broadcasting and telemedia supervision criteria. New criteria were added to take account of new Internet trends, such as influencer marketing, and the dangers of online gaming addiction. The KJM is an organ of the Landesmedienanstalten. Germany’s federal structure, in which 14 state media authorities operate in the 16 Bundesländer (federal states), means that a joint body is needed...

On 30 September 2020, the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media – KJM) ruled that youth protection rules had been breached on the Twitter platform. Unable to prosecute the account holders concerned on account of their anonymity, the KJM held Twitter itself responsible. In six separate cases, the KJM found that Twitter users had breached the German Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag (Inter-State Treaty on the protection of minors in the media – JMStV) by making pornographic content publicly accessible. Since the service providers...

On 1 October, the National Commission on Markets and Competition (Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia - CNMC), the Spanish regulator, launched a public consultation to determine whether video-sharing platforms (VSP) should comply with the current regulation that media service providers (MSP) are subject to. The development of new audiovisual actors such as VSPs and new media services which are sometimes difficult to categorise were some of the reasons for the update of the AVMSD; the new Directive redefined the concept of a programme, making it no longer necessary to have...

On 21 August 2020, the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media – KJM) published a report entitled “Search engine filter mechanisms”. The report, prepared by jugendschutz.net on behalf of the KJM, studied the security settings of Germany’s two most popular search engines, Google and Bing. It concluded that, even when security settings were activated, children and young people using both platforms could easily come into contact with content that could harm their development, especially through search results relating to...