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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.

1,397 articles published

Gaming

Betfair Case: New Scenario in the Italian Gaming Market?

It seems that the tolerance of the Italian Gaming Authority (AAMS) to the unlawful offer of remote games to Italian residents in absence of an Italian remote gaming license has now reached an end. AAMS has challenged to Betfair Italia, the company of the Betfair group holding an Italian remote gaming license (under which it…

ByGiulio CoraggioJanuary 27, 20110Comments

Intellectual Property liability ISP

Google Dispute Opens to New Regulations on IPRs

The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) has now closed the proceeding against Google concerning the abuse of dominant position with reference to Google News, subsequently extended also to Google AdSense. The Italian Competition Authority has accepted the undertakings submitted by Google relating to: the setting up of a dedicated software…

ByGiulio CoraggioJanuary 22, 20110Comments

liability ISP

An Italian DMCA – What Liabilities for ISPs?

The Italian Communications Authority (AGCOM) has launched a public consultation aimed at setting new regulations on the protection of copyright on electronic communications networks that include both Internet and television networks. The document attached to the public consultation notice sets out the guidelines of the regulations that AGCOM is willing to issue and addresses specific…

ByGiulio CoraggioJanuary 9, 20110Comments

liability ISP

eBay Not Liable for Keywords Usage

The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice issued an interesting Opinion on the dispute L'Oréal vs. eBay relating to the purchase by eBay of keywords (e.g. AdWords keywords) identical to L'Oréal's registered trademarks linking to eBay listings offering for sale both infringing goods and non-infringing goods and whether eBay could be deemed liable for the…

ByGiulio CoraggioDecember 10, 20100Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Websites Obliged to Act before Consumers’ Courts?

The European Court of Justice has issued an interesting decision in relation to the rules of jurisdiction applicable to contractual relationships between consumers and websites based in other EU Member States. According to the EU Regulation 44/2001 on the jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, the courts of the domicile…

ByGiulio CoraggioDecember 8, 20100Comments

Gaming

Casino Games and Cash Games Saga Almost Over!

The never ending saga of the Italian decree regulating cash poker games and casino games seems to be almost over. The Administrative Court of Lazio Region rejected the claim brought by one of the major Italian gaming operators, Microgame, against the decree. Indeed, earlier this year, the Administrative Court of Lazio Region had ordered the…

ByGiulio CoraggioDecember 3, 20100Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Italian VLT Market: The first Data

After the launch of the videolotteries (VLT) in the Italian gaming market, now it is time to see what happened in the last months. Here is the first information available: around 4,500 VLTs have been installed so far out of almost 57,000 VLTs that operators are entitled to install and 253 VLT gaming halls have been…

ByGiulio CoraggioDecember 1, 20100Comments

Gaming

Data On Italian Gaming Market: The Best is Yet To Come

The Italian Gaming Authority has now published the “Official Data On Remote Gaming” reviewing the data generated by the sector during this year up to 31 October 2010. I believe there are no major surprises: while horse betting games are suffering a deep crisis with a decrease of the value of bets of 12.9%, fixed…

ByGiulio CoraggioNovember 21, 20100Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Monitoring of Employees’ E-mail & Internet Usage and data protection issues

We have been receiving more and more requests of assistance during the last years in relation to data protection issues connected to the monitoring of employees’ email and Internet usage.

ByGiulio CoraggioNovember 14, 20100Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Direct Marketing: Only a Privacy Issue?

A recent decision issued by the Italian Competition Authority (the AGCM) against an Italian telecom operator performing marketing communications without the prior consent of relative customers raised a relevant topic of discussion. Interestingly the conduct was not challenged because its lack of the compliance with privacy laws, but the AGCM is the Italian authority…

ByGiulio CoraggioNovember 3, 20100Comments