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On 1 March 2018, the European Commission issued a Recommendation on measures to effectively tackle illegal content online. The Recommendation addresses the need for IT companies and member states to put in place a series of operational measures for the effective removal of illegal content, as well as necessary safeguards intended to protect users’ fundamental rights. This Recommendation should be seen in the light of the Communication of September 2017 on tackling illegal content online, in which the Commission emphasised the increasing responsibility of Internet intermediaries in the countering...

The Editors' Code of Practice, under which the clear majority of Britain’s newspaper, magazine and news website journalists operate, was reviewed in 2017, and changes to it became effective from 1 January 2018. The Code is regarded as the “cornerstone” of the UK press self-regulatory system. Its rules, which are framed by the Editors’ Code of Practice Committee, set standards that the voluntarily subscribing industry members have agreed to maintain. Editors and publishers can be held to account via the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), which became the new regulatory body for the...

In expressing his good wishes for the New Year, the President of the national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA, Olivier Schrameck summed up the achievements of the past year and presented the CSA’s prospects for the coming year. He called for an “essential readjustment of all the regulatory equilibria”, with regulation extended to include digital audiovisual services, in terms of both scope and method. This would cover relations between the traditional audiovisual media and services platforms, the articulation of public-service and market offers, the balance...

Two associations asked the Conseil d’Etat to annul the following provisions of Decree no. 2017-150 of 8 February 2017 on film classification: “II. - The classification measure … is proportionate to the need to protect children and young people, and in keeping with the sensitivities and stages in personality development specific to each age group and with respect for human dignity. If the work or document in question includes scenes of sexual activity or extreme violence which - particularly by their cumulative effect - may be seriously disturbing for minors, or present violence in a favourable...

On 10 January 2018, the Catalan Audiovisual Council (CAC) Board members passed unanimously Agreement 1/2018 in response to the request made by the Ministry of Finance and Public Administrations on the draft Royal Decree (906/2017) on commercial communications regarding activities involving gambling and “responsible gambling”. The CAC is in favour of banning gambling and betting advertisements before the “watershed” - that is to say from 6:00am to 10:00pm. The Council also considers that it should be appropriate to eliminate the involvement of famous people in these kinds of commercial communications...