With considerable delays, the E-Cookies Directive 2009/136 has been finally implemented setting the rules on cookies in Italy with some better news than expected but also some gaming law concerns for operators.
The Italian Gaming Authority, AAMS, published the data for March and April 2012 on the Italian online gaming market showing an increase in players' spending of 8.6% compared to 2011.
The turnover of the Italian online gaming market reached in the first 4 months of 2012 € 5.5 billion with players' spending of €…
The Italian betting exchange decree finally obtained the approval from the European Commission. As previously reported the approval of the decree had been postponed to the 18th of May because of the detailed opinion filed by Spain. However, it seems that the green light from the EC has now arrived. However, it…
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…
Lowering of taxation for sportsbetting games, licenses for betting shops, dedicated bank account and further delays on the launch of live poker in the law of ratification of the so called Fiscal Decree. A law just published on the Italian Official Gazette provides the following: S portsbetting Taxes: i t has…
A law providing the award of 2,000 Italian betting shop licenses is expected to be approved in the next days and the decree regulating the offering of bets on virtual events in Italy obtained the approval from the European Commission. Following the decision of the European Court of Justice in Costa Cifone case ,…
The main issue of Italian sportsbetting regulations currently is that operators are allowed to offer only events and types of bets included in the official list issued by AAMS (the so called " palinsesto"), but this is going to change shortly as a consequence of a draft decree now notified to the European Commission.…
