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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.

1,520 articles published

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

liability ISP

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

Intellectual Property Internet liability liability ISP

Yahoo! – Internet liability for Searchable Contents

The Court of Rome has issued a decision on the Internet liability of search engines that will lead to considerable discussions. PFA Films S.r.l., as exclusive licensee of exploitation rights on the movie “About Elly” of the director Asghar Farhadi, brought an interim injunction before the Court of Rome against Google Italy S.r.l., Yahoo! Italia S.r.l. and Microsoft S.r.l. (as owner of the search engine Bing) because of the breach of their IPRs through links to websites allowing the streaming view, the downloading or P2P transfer of the movie without PFA’s consent.

ByGiulio CoraggioApril 3, 20110Comments

Gaming

Italian Online Gaming Licenses – Final FAQs

After the final approval of the decree regulating the issue of new Italian gaming licenses and of the decree on casino and cash poker games, here are the final FAQs to help operators willing to apply for one of the Italian online gaming licenses: Q. - Why do I need an Italian gaming license…

ByGiulio CoraggioMarch 27, 20110Comments

Gaming

Comunitaria Decree on New Italian Online Gaming Licenses: Now Published

The Italian Gambling Authority (AAMS) has now published the decree on the new Italian remote gaming licenses (the so called "Comunitaria Decree") that also regulates the upgrade of the current licenses. We expect that AAMS will publish tomorrow the implementing decrees on the its website. This is a great news as the…

ByGiulio CoraggioMarch 9, 20110Comments

Gaming

Italian videolottery – The biggest change in the European Gaming Market?

The Italian Gaming Authority (AAMS) has published the data of January 2011 on the Italian gaming market. With no surprise for operators, the Italian videolottery market has seen a major boost with a turnover of € 555 millions which is quite impressive if compared to the previous month where the turnover was of € 450 millions.

ByGiulio CoraggioMarch 8, 20110Comments