The clarification is an important one. Videos posted on a media firm's news site are not covered by the obligations of the audiovisual media service directive . They differ from generally TV-like audiovisual media services (long films, TV series, sports broadcasts, etc) due to the fact that they supplement other news content (word, sound and image).
This is the opinion given by the Advocate-General at the EU Court of Justice, Maciej Szpunar, in response to a question for a preliminary…