Below the Giants: How EU Platforms Handle Age Assurance across Three Stages of the User Journey
Article 28(1) of the Digital Services Act (DSA) requires every provider of an online platform…
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Towards a new paradigm of platforms’ liability
1. Introduction The first social media addiction trial is currently before the Los Angeles Superior…
EVENT ALERT | Online course on Regulating Digital Platforms
MediaLaws is pleased to share the launch of the online course on “Regulating Digital Platforms”,…
Online Platforms’ Liability and the Processing of Sensitive Data: A Comment on the CJEU Judgment (Grand Chamber, 2 December 2025) – Case C492/23 X v Russmedia Digital SRL and Inform Media Press SRL
Introduction The judgment delivered by the Court of Justice of the European Union (Grand Chamber,…
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS | Online Platforms: Private Actors with State-like Power?
MediaLaws is pleased to share the Call for Abstracts for the Early Career Platform Regulation…
EVENT ALERT | Effective Remedies: EU Competition Law v. Sector Regulation of Digital Platforms
MediaLaws is pleased to share the conference ‘Effective Remedies: EU Competition Law v. Sector Regulation…
Auditing Platforms under the Digital Services Act
MediaLaws is pleased to share the blog post by Giovanni De Gregorio and Oreste Pollicino…
Fashion Design and Utility Patent valuation using Digital Platforms, AI, and block-chained anti-counterfeiting
Design and Utility Patents Media, copyright, and trademark laws are pivotal in protecting the IP…
CALL FOR PAPERS | Digital Platforms: Competition and Regulation
MediaLaws is pleased to announce a call for papers organized by the National Bureau of…
Recalibrating Platforms’ AI Systems: EU advances
Introduction Recommending digital content is a prominent everyday application of AI. Social media platforms such…
Una nuova proposta della Commissione Europea sulle condizioni dei lavoratori delle digital platforms
L’8 dicembre 2021, la Commissione Europea ha presentato una proposta di Direttiva che riguarda la…
MEETING and CALL FOR BLOGPOSTS – What governance for online platforms? Towards digital constitutionalism
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European plan to increase transparency and accountability of the gatekeeper online platforms to protect democracy: EDMO`s role in the Commission’s digital policy approach
Year 2020 has been all but ordinary. The pandemic has further accelerated the digital transformation…
ISP Liability: are platforms like YouTube directly liable for illegal uploads?
Analysis of Advocate General’s opinion on the joined Cases C-682/18 and C-683/18 Introduction The arena…
BEREC: ex-ante regulatory framework for digital platforms with significant intermediation power
In its response to the European Commission’s public consultations on the Digital Services Act (DSA)…
AG Saugmandsgaard Øe opinion: online platform operators, such as YouTube and Uploaded, are not directly liable for the illegal uploading of protected works by the users of those platforms
On July 16th, the CJEU released the Advocate General’s Opinion in Joined Cases C-682/18 Frank Peterson…
Media regulation at a distance: video-sharing platforms in Audiovisual Media Services Directive and the future of content regulation
This article argues that the inclusion of video-sharing platforms in the new version of Audiovisual…
European Commission: Guidelines on Video sharing platforms and Guidelines on European Works
On July 2nd, the Commission adopted two sets of guidelines to help Member States implement…
Safe harbour protection for online video platforms: a time to say goodbye? Analysis of judgements by Italian and German courts on the liability of YouTube for copyright infringements
This article examines the liability of YouTube for copyright infringing content uploaded by its users.…
Online platforms, profiling, and artificial intelligence: new challenges for the GDPR and, in particular, for the informed and unambiguous data subject’s consent
The future of digital societies will increasingly depend on the identification of a fair balance…
Call for papers “Platforms and new challenges in the Digital Single Market”
Call for papers PIATTAFORME E NUOVE SFIDE NEL MERCATO UNICO DIGITALE La Rivista di…
Digital platforms and the law: contested issues
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The impact of online platforms on information freedom and media pluralism. Fake news and other regulatory challenges – Roma, 17 marzo
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The Right to be Forgotten, determining the liability of ISP as media platforms and paving the way to a regulated future – Law and Media Working Paper Series no. 16/2016
Law and Media Working Paper Series no. 16/2016 S. Amprimo, The Right to be Forgotten,…
Surveys on online platforms show their key role in consumers and small businesses’ internet activities
The first survey shows that almost six in ten respondents expect online platforms to present…
Commission updates EU audiovisual rules and presents targeted approach to online platforms
The European Commission today proposed an update of EU audiovisual rules to create a fairer…
Council of Europe adopts recommendations to protect human rights on search engines and social platforms
Strasbourg, 05.04.2012 – The Council of Europe has adopted two Recommendations in which it calls…
Court of Milan Holds Video Sharing Platforms Liable for Copyright Infringement
Reti Televisive Italiane S.p.A. v Italia On Line S.r.l., Court of Milan, January 2011 (published…
Fair Design, Dark Patterns and Child Protection: Towards a Child-Centred Regulation by Design in the European Digital Rulebooks
For years, the European debate on children’s online protection has largely revolved around one central…
AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material and EU Law: Criminal Law, Digital Regulation, and the Perils of Techno-Solutionism
Introduction Since the early internet, the production and dissemination of child sexual abuse material (CSAM)…
From affordances to addiction: The Commission’s enforcement of the DSA at the intersection of science and policy
In February of 2026, the European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital…
The Munich Ruling on Google AI Overviews: Rethinking Liability for Generative Search
1. A changed search experience Until less than two years ago, searching online still followed…