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Comment: Content producers relieved with EU court opinion's nuanced support of upload filters

By Matthew Newman
  • 15 Jul 2021 12:25
  • 15 Jul 2021 12:25
Vivendi’s Canal Plus, Disney, NBCUniversal, Warner Bros. and other rightsholders can breathe a provisional sigh of relief after the use of filtering technology by online video-sharing platforms such as YouTube was upheld in a legal opinion for the EU’s top court today.
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Matthew Newman

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Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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