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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

Gaming

New Italian Remote Licenses: Here Are The Rules

As expected, the Italian Gaming Authority has notified to the European Commission the draft decree setting out the new Italian licensing regime. The draft decree will be subject to the review of the European Commission up to the 15th of October 2010 and, if no comments are raised by the other EU Member…

ByGiulio CoraggioJuly 15, 20100Comments

Intellectual Property liability ISP

Keywords Can Lead To Trademark Breach

After the long awaited landmark Louis Vuitton v. Google decision , the European Court of Justice (the "ECJ ") has issued another interesting decision on the use keywords in search advertising systems (e.g. AdWords) that however reviews the issue on the advertisers' side. The ECJ held that a trademark holder can prohibit from advertising…

ByGiulio CoraggioJuly 12, 20100Comments

Gaming

Casino Games: 63% growth in 2013!

The launch of online slots in Italy led to a 63% growth of the online casino games sector in 2013 according to a report from the University of Milan. Online slots were launched in Italy at the end of 2012 and now represent 50% of € 240 million GGR generated in 2013 from…

ByGiulio CoraggioJuly 8, 20100Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Cookies & Behavioral Ads: The Rules

The Article 29 Working Party , the European Union data protection advisory body, issued an interesting opinion on online behavioral advertising , i.e. the tracking of users when they surf the Internet and the building of profiles over time, which are later used to provide them with advertising matching their interests . Rules…

ByGiulio CoraggioJune 27, 20100Comments

Intellectual Property

Modifying Consoles Is A Crime

The Italian Criminal Court of Cassation has issued an interesting decision against two resellers of gaming consoles selling devices, the so called "modchips", aimed at removing the technological measures of protection embedded in gaming consoles by the relative manufacturers. Article 171-ter, letter f-bis, of Italian Copyright Law, implementing the Copyright Directive 2000/29/EC, sanctions with…

ByGiulio CoraggioJune 25, 20100Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Virtualization and Cloud Computing: risks and opportunities

This is to inform you about a very interesting conference named “Virtualizzazione e Cloud Computing: rischi ed opportunitità” (Virtualization and Cloud Computing: risks and opportinuties) that will be held on the 23rd of June 2010 in Milan at Palazzo Turati. The conference will see the participation of world famous lecturers, managers and attorneys. I believe…

ByGiulio CoraggioJune 21, 20100Comments

liability ISP

Contributory Liability for Linking

The Court of Milan issued an interesting decision on a topic that is very “hot” especially now during the Football World Cup. Sky Italia, the holder of the copyrights on the broadcasting of the matches of the Italian football championship, brought a claim against the website “tvgratis.net” that provided the links and software necessary to access to Chinese websites stream broadcasting such football matches in breach of Sky Italia’s copyrights and against Telecom Italia, the Italian telecom incumbent, providing access to such website.

ByGiulio CoraggioJune 16, 20100Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Delays on Cash and Casino Games in Italy

The Administrative Court of Lazio Region has issued an interim suspension of the efficacy of the Italian decree on poker cash games and casino games following a claim from Microgame, one of the main Italian gaming operators (not to be confused with Microgaming) . Based on the information currently available…

ByGiulio CoraggioJune 10, 20100Comments

Gaming

Europe Supports Dutch Gaming Monopoly

Once again following the recent Bwin v. Santa Casa decision , the European Court of Justice has declared an European gaming monopoly compliant with the EU principles to provide services in two decisions involving Betfair and Ladbrokes against the Dutch gaming monopoly. To give you a but…

ByGiulio CoraggioJune 7, 20100Comments

Gaming

Bad News on Online Slots

The Italian Gaming Authority has published a Bulletin Circular providing the details on the technical authorization process to be performed by Italian licensed operators before starting the offer of online skill games (including poker tournaments), poker cash games and casino games. New entrants in the market interested in the offer of such games…

ByGiulio CoraggioMay 25, 20100Comments