The intellectual property court of Florence has issued an interesting decision on the liability of search engines and the circumstances when they are obliged to remove infringing material.  The dispute refers to a case concerning an entrepreneur that had identified on the Internet some non-authorized pictures reproducing him and some defamatory comments about his…

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…

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…