#62025CJ0232EU court clarifies where reputation and personality-rights claims can be filed over TV and online content
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People and companies can bring claims over alleged harm to their reputation or personality rights in the EU country where their main interests are based, even if the TV or online content was produced in another Member State. The case concerns audiovisual content that may identify a person indirectly, not only by naming them directly. The ruling matters for broadcasters, producers, platforms, businesses, and individuals involved in cross-border media disputes. It confirms that claimants may seek remedies such as removal, prevention of further harm, and compensation before courts linked to where the damage is mainly felt.
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Key Changes
- Confirms that courts in the claimant’s centre of interests may hear personality-rights claims over cross-border TV and online content.
- Extends the analysis to content that can indirectly identify a person, not only content that names them directly.
- Allows claims for removal, prevention of further harm, and non-material damages before courts where the main damage is felt.
Obligations
What this law requires
For alleged breaches of personality rights caused by audiovisual content broadcast on television or online, EU jurisdiction rules allow an action to be brought before the courts of the Member State where the claimant has their centre of interests, even if the content was produced in another Member State.
The centre-of-interests jurisdiction rule may apply where the challenged content does not directly name the person but contains elements that make it possible to identify that person indirectly as an individual.
A claimant relying on alleged personality-rights harm may seek measures before the centre-of-interests court to eliminate the effects of the breach, prevent further effects, and claim compensation for non-material damage.