The court of Rome (Italy) held that Wikipedia defamatory contents published by its users do not lead to Wikipedia's liability 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. Only Wikipedia users themselves could be deemed responsible for the published Wikipedia defamatory contents .
The Italian Data Protection Authority issued direct marketing data protection guidelines aimed at setting out general regulations on privacy-related obligations concerning direct marketing practices and against spamming initiatives which provide very interesting insights.
We covered issues connected to liability clauses, termination clauses, SLAs and penalty/liquidated damages clauses, forum selection and applicable law clauses, intellectual property clauses 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 .
