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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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liability ISP

Your Blog is a Newspaper

The Court of Appeal of Catania (Sicily) has issued an Interesting decision against the blog "Accadeinsicilia.it" run by a famous Italian historian Carlo Ruta providing (not on a regular basis) information on Sicily. The Court of Catania challenged to Mr. Ruta that the blog was not enrolled in the Court registry as requested by Italian press…

ByGiulio CoraggioMay 30, 20110Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

EU Cookies Directive: Deadline Expired!

It expires today the deadline for the implementation of the so called EU Cookies Directive 2009/136/EC amending, among others, the ePrivacy Directive 2002/58/EC setting out specific privacy-related regulations governing the electronic communications sector. The provision of the EU Cookies Directive that is leading to the most relevant discussions concerns the obligation to…

ByGiulio CoraggioMay 25, 20110Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Geo-location Services on Mobiles – What Privacy Issues?

The Article 29 Working Party (the "WP"), the EU privacy advisory board, has issued an interesting opinion on the data protection issues connected to the provision of geo-location services on smart mobile devices. The conclusions reached by the WP are: geo-location data : geo-location data are "personal data" for the purposes of…

ByGiulio CoraggioMay 21, 20110Comments

Gaming

Italian Gaming Market: Amazing 1st Quarter Data

The Italian Gambling Authority has now published the data relating to April and the first quarter 2011. The growth of the market went beyond any expectation and indeed the aggregate turnover (both online and offline) of the first quarter 2011 was of € 24 bn with an increase of 18.2% if compared to the same…

ByGiulio CoraggioMay 18, 20110Comments

Gaming

Gaming Licences and Casino Games – Need To Know!

After several articles on the decree governing new Italian remote gaming licenses and casino and cash poker games, I believe it is useful to have a summary of the above to avoid to get lost! After more than a year of delays, the Italian decree regulating online poker casino games and poker cash…

ByGiulio CoraggioMay 16, 20110Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Lighter Privacy Obligations for Italian Companies

The Italian Government has recently approved a decree amending some of relevant provisions of the Italian Privacy Code aimed at simplifying the privacy obligations for Italian businesses. In short, these are the main changes: COMPANIES' PERSONAL DATA: Italy was one of the very few EU countries…

ByGiulio CoraggioMay 11, 20110Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

VLT’s Registry: What Tax Consequences?

The Italian Videolottery market is growing faster than initially expected. According to the data available on the press, 19,000 VLTs (out of the 57,000 that concessionaires can instal) have been installed so far generating a turnover during the first 3 months of 2011 of € 2.2 billions (i.e. € 1,280 per machine/day) with each VLT…

ByGiulio CoraggioMay 5, 20110Comments

Gaming

Gaming vouchers: troubles but necessary…

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:…

ByGiulio CoraggioApril 27, 20110Comments

Intellectual Property liability ISP

Italian Filtering is illegal?

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…

ByGiulio CoraggioApril 17, 20110Comments

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Google Liable for Suggest Search Results

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…

ByGiulio CoraggioApril 6, 20110Comments