The court of Rome (Italy) held that Wikipediaย defamatory contents published by its users do not lead to Wikipedia's liabilityย in a case involving contents published on Wikipedia regarding an Italian lawyer and former politician Mr. Cesare Previti which according to the latter were defamatory. ย Only Wikipedia users themselves could be deemed responsible for the published Wikipedia defamatory contents .
The Italian Data Protection Authority issued direct marketing data protectionย guidelines aimed at setting out general regulations on privacy-related obligations concerning direct marketing practices and against spamming initiatives which provide very interesting insights.ย
We covered issues connected to liability clauses, termination clauses,ย SLAs and penalty/liquidated damages clauses,ย forum selection and applicable law clauses,ย intellectual property clausesย in outsourcing agreements, but I thought that we had to review data protection / privacy clauses which are vital for outsourcing agreements involving the flow of data between different entities located worldwide that trigger major data protections issues .
