{"id":460165,"date":"2026-07-16T11:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/07\/16\/corte-ue-google-puo-essere-responsabile-per-i-video-pubblicati-su-youtube\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:16:01","slug":"eu-court-google-may-be-held-liable-for-videos-posted-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/07\/16\/eu-court-google-may-be-held-liable-for-videos-posted-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Court: “Google may be held liable for videos posted on YouTube”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Google may be held liable for the YouTube videos <\/strong>of a
\ncontent creator with whom it has a commercial partnership<\/strong>. This was established by the Court of Justice of the European Union, which, in its judgment<\/a>, clarified EU law. The ruling concerns the dispute between the Italian Communications Authority (AGCOM) and the well-known web operator, with AGCOM imposing a 750,000 euro fine on Google Ireland for videos promoting online gambling in breach of Italian regulations.<\/p>\n

 The judges in Luxembourg clarified that \u201cEU law excludes gambling, and all activities linked to it, from the scope
\nof harmonisation in electronic commerce” because of the profound moral, religious and cultural differences between the
\nMember States in that regard. At the same time, however, renting space on a website or platform (online hosting) \u201cis not intrinsically linked to gambling,” since it consists of storing, in a neutral
\nmanner, content provided by the user, without any promotional intent. Therefore, online<\/strong> hosting <\/strong>“is therefore not covered by the
\nexclusion laid down in EU law and thus falls within <\/strong>the scope of the EU legislation on electronic commerce<\/a>.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

 In this specific case, Google may be exempt from liability if it was unaware of the information transmitted or stored. However, the Court of Justice of the EU clarified that, when a web operator, for the purpose of concluding a commercial partnership agreement<\/strong>, examines the main theme of a video channel, the most-viewed or most recent videos on that channel, as well as the relevant metadata, \u201cit acquires specific knowledge of the essential content of a set of videos and cannot therefore
\nclaim to act as an intermediary service provider.<\/strong>\u201d For this reason, Google may be held liable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The judges in Luxembourg ruled in AGCOM\u2019s favour: in the case of commercial agreements, those who rent out online space cannot claim to be unaware of what will be broadcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":430140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25710],"tags":[33406,26442,27262,26131,33394],"class_list":["post-460165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-net-tech-en","tag-agcom","tag-court-of-justice-en","tag-google-en-2","tag-internet-en-2","tag-ue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460166,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460165\/revisions\/460166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}