Friday, May 25, 2012

Italian Gaming Market: March/April Data!

The Italian Gaming Authority, AAMS, published the data for March and April 2012 on the Italian online gaming market showing an increase in players' spending of 8.6% compared to 2011.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Betting Exchange Decree Approved by EU

The Italian betting exchange decree finally obtained the approval from the European Commission.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Freedom for Blogs in Italy

The Italian Supreme Court held yesterday that blogs cannot be qualified as newspapers and consequently shall not be subject to the relative registration and liability obligations.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Google NOT Liable for Suggest Search Results

We had reported in a previous post about the decision of the Court of Milan against Google for defamation arising from the usage of Google "suggest search" service. Interestingly, one year later the court of Pinerolo took a complete opposite view.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Good News and Obligations in the Fiscal Decree

Lowering of taxation for sportsbetting games, licenses for betting shops, dedicated bank account and further delays on the launch of live poker in the law of ratification of the so called Fiscal Decree.