Resumen de Austria: : Administrative Court classifies video offering of Tyrol daily newspaper as audiovisual media service
In the legal dispute between New Media Online and the Bundeskommunikationssenat (Federal Communications Board) (Case 2015/03/0004), the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Administrative Court) decided on 16 December 2015 that the video offering on the plaintiff’s website was to be classified as an audiovisual media service within the meaning of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD). The video offering, it said, was independent and not (no longer) linked to the journalistic activity.
