By: |
Arcos, MTeresa;
Feijóo, Claudio |
Abstract: |
Boundaries set between legacy audiovisual and digital content services are
blurring nowadays. However, the legal framework applicable to those services
is still rather different to such an extent it is recognized as divergent,
particularly regarding the liability regime of the service providers. Among
the examples of these distinct regimes, the protection for minors with access
to potentially harmful content regarding their moral and mental growth is used
in the paper to analyse the lack of coherence in the legal treatment of
audiovisual content, in the EUin particular. From the analysis, the paper
concludes that the Digital Services Act, as the latest step in theevolution of
the legal framework for the digital services in the EU still seems unable to
restore the required level of coherence and level the playing field for
audiovisual content. and, therefore, lacks content-neutrality from the
perspective of technology used for the distribution of content. Therefore, the
paper foresees that more legislative initiatives will be needed to avoid the
negative effects of the difficulties of existing audiovisual legislative
framework enforcement and perceived lack of trust in law. |
Keywords: |
digital services regulation,audiovisual regulation,neutrality,content-neutrality,technology-neutrality European audiovisual market,Digital Single Market,liability intermediaries,AVSMD,DSA,harmful content,minors |
Date: |
2022 |
URL: |
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:itse22:265612&r=cul |