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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.

1,474 articles published

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

Gaming

Italy: The New Vegas?

The Italian Gambling Authority (AAMS) has provided some clarifications on the locations where operators will be entitled to install videolotteries. In particular, the AAMS clarified that it will be possible to install VLTs not only in bingo halls, betting and gaming shops and gaming halls where other entertainment machine have to be located, but also…

ByGiulio CoraggioOctober 30, 20100Comments

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No Liability for Editors of Online Newspapers

The Italian Court of Cassation (the Italian Supreme Court) has issued a groundbreaking decision on the liability regime applicable to editors of online newspapers, blogs and forums. Indeed, the Italian criminal code prescribes that editors of printed newspapers and other journals are "objectively" liable for any content published on their newspapers despite of their lack…

ByGiulio CoraggioOctober 26, 20100Comments

Gaming

Italy Remote Gaming Regulations Webinar

I am delighted to inform you that I have been invited to speak at the webinar named “ Italy Remote Gaming Regulations ” that it will take place on Monday 15 November. If you want to register for the webinar, please visit www.italywebinar.com or drop an email to me, Giulio Coraggio …

ByGiulio CoraggioOctober 26, 20100Comments