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Giulio Coraggio

I am the location head of the Italian Intellectual Property & Technology department and the global co-head of the IoT and Gaming and Gambling groups at the world-leading law firm DLA Piper. IoT and artificial intelligence influencer and FinTech and blockchain expert, finding solutions to what's next for our client's success.

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Gaming

Betting Exchange Decree Approved by EU

The Italian betting exchange decree finally obtained the approval from the European Commission. As previously reported the approval of the decree had been postponed to the 18th of May because of the detailed opinion filed by Spain. However, it seems that the green light from the EC has now arrived. However, it…

ByGiulio CoraggioMay 22, 20120Comments

liability ISP

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. This decision terminates a never-ending saga that saw the Court of First Instance and the Court of Appeal holding that blogs have to be enrolled in the Court registry as requested…

ByGiulio CoraggioMay 11, 20120Comments

liability ISP

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. The case relates to an entrepreneur who found out that…

ByGiulio CoraggioMay 8, 20120Comments

Gaming

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. A law just published on the Italian Official Gazette provides the following: S portsbetting Taxes: i t has…

ByGiulio CoraggioMay 3, 20120Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Betting Shops and Virtual Events…Lots to Come!

A law providing the award of 2,000 Italian betting shop licenses is expected to be approved in the next days and the decree regulating the offering of bets on virtual events in Italy obtained the approval from the European Commission. Following the decision of the European Court of Justice in Costa Cifone case ,…

ByGiulio CoraggioApril 18, 20120Comments

Gaming

Bets out of Palinsesto Decree to the EU

The main issue of Italian sportsbetting regulations currently is that operators are allowed to offer only events and types of bets included in the official list issued by AAMS (the so called " palinsesto"), but this is going to change shortly as a consequence of a draft decree now notified to the European Commission.…

ByGiulio CoraggioApril 15, 20120Comments

Gaming

Lawyers Monday – Online gaming in Italy

ByGiulio CoraggioApril 10, 20120Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Health-related Websites & Privacy: Need to Know!

The Italian Data Protection Authority has published guidelines on the processing of personal data on health-related websites which provide stringent requirements. Websites, forum, blogs but even social networks that are dedicated to health-related issues provide advice, exchange of information and contain comments from users that in some cases can reveal very sensitive data about their…

ByGiulio CoraggioApril 4, 20120Comments

Gaming

Gambling Advertising Safe and Sound?

We had reported of a law proposal aimed at introducing a complete ban on gambling advertising in Italy . However the latest good news are that more likely Italy will adopt an approach similar to the UK. According to the latest news, the Italian Government is going to submit to the Parliament an…

ByGiulio CoraggioMarch 30, 20120Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

ICT in the Medical Sector: New Opportunities!

A Law Decree introducing the so called electronic health record, online examination record and in general the digitalization of the medical sector is about to be ratified by the Italian Parliament boosting the eHealth sector in Italy This considerable change provides the adoption of the electronic management of health files through the…

ByGiulio CoraggioMarch 27, 20120Comments