Alphabet unit Google has lost a legal case in Europe to avoid paying a substantial fine worth $854,250 tied to the company\u2019s alleged advertising of illegal gambling on YouTube, its video-sharing platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The case dates back four years; it has taken action from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to be resolved, after Google challenged the 2022 ruling of an Italian administrative court.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fast forward to 2026, and the company has officially lost its case in the Luxembourg-based court. The company insisted that it was protected from legal ramifications against itself arising from content disputes uploaded by content creators, but this argument fell flat.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The company cited this exemption specifically, but failed to convince the court, which argued that because of a commercial partnership between the content creator and YouTube, the position was not tenable:<\/p>\n
\u201cGoogle may be held liable for the YouTube videos of \u200ca content creator with whom it has a commercial partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n
CJEU<\/p>\n
The rules around exemption from liability only applied in those cases where Google\u2019s platforms acted as intermediary service providers, limiting themselves to strictly technical support.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is not the case where an operator reviews, for \u200bthe purpose of concluding a commercial partnership contract, the \u200bmain theme \u2060of a video channel, that channel\u2019s most viewed videos or newest videos and the associated metadata,\u201d the court further noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alphabet unit Google has lost a legal case in Europe to avoid paying a substantial fine worth $854,250…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12916,241,22426,5],"class_list":["post-32821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-italy","tag-casino","tag-europe","tag-google","tag-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}