The decree regulating the issue of new Italian remote gaming licenses contains also some interesting surprises for operators. The sample of the gaming account agreement attached to the new license agreement to be entered by both the current licensed operators and by the new entrants in the market provides. A GOOD NEWS:…
The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice, Cruz Villalon, has issued a very interesting opinion on the possibility for courts to order Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to filter and block files infringing copyrights. The background information is the following: Sabam, the Belgian association of authors and editors, brought a claim…
Life is getting harder and harder in Italy for search engines. After the recent dispute involving Yahoo!, the court of Milan has now issued another interesting decision on the liability of search engines with particular reference to a potential defamatory conduct arising through the usage of Google's service "suggest search". Google "suggest search" service is a software that…
The Court of Rome has issued a decision on the Internet liability of search engines that will lead to considerable discussions. PFA Films S.r.l., as exclusive licensee of exploitation rights on the movie “About Elly” of the director Asghar Farhadi, brought an interim injunction before the Court of Rome against Google Italy S.r.l., Yahoo! Italia S.r.l. and Microsoft S.r.l. (as owner of the search engine Bing) because of the breach of their IPRs through links to websites allowing the streaming view, the downloading or P2P transfer of the movie without PFA’s consent.
After the final approval of the decree regulating the issue of new Italian gaming licenses and of the decree on casino and cash poker games, here are the final FAQs to help operators willing to apply for one of the Italian online gaming licenses:
Q. - Why do I need an Italian gaming license…
The Italian Gambling Authority (AAMS) has now published the decree on the new Italian remote gaming licenses (the so called "Comunitaria Decree") that also regulates the upgrade of the current licenses. We expect that AAMS will publish tomorrow the implementing decrees on the its website. This is a great news as the…
The Italian Gaming Authority (AAMS) has published the data of January 2011 on the Italian gaming market. With no surprise for operators, the Italian videolottery market has seen a major boost with a turnover of € 555 millions which is quite impressive if compared to the previous month where the turnover was of € 450 millions.
The Italian Communication Authority (AGCOM) has recently published two regulations concerning (i) web-based linear audiovisual media services (such as WebTVs) and (ii) on-demand audiovisual media services broadcast on any electronic communication network. The most relevant change introduced by the regulations is that both services are now subject to a prior authorisation from the AGCOM…
After more than a year of delays, the Italian decree regulating online poker cash games and casino games has finally been published on the Italian Official Gazette and therefore has now come into force. No real surprises have been unveiled by the decree. Indeed, as already prescribed by the previous version of the…
After a never-ending waiting, the Italian casino games and cash poker games decree has been finally published on the Official Gazette and has now come into force. In a nutshell the decree prescribes that: operators need to go through an authorization process relating to their platform and each game they intend to…