OUT-LAW.COM reports that the EU Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Viviane Reding is planning to introduce a European Contract Law to govern cross-border distance selling. According to Ms. Reding, such laws “ would exist in parallel to the national contract laws and provide standard terms and conditions ”.…

The decree setting out the technical and functional requirements of the videolottery machines has been finally published on the Official Gazette. As anticipated in the previous posts , videolotteries are expected to be the biggest innovation in the Italian gaming market in 2010. Indeed, the maximum wins of € 500,000 are likely to attract…

The European Commission has  adopted a new set of standard contractual clauses for transfers of personal data from data controllers in the European Union to data processors located outside the European Union. Under European data protection laws, transfer of personal data to a third country that does not ensure (according to the European Commission) an adequate level…

The introduction of a private copying levy scheme has been subject of relevant discussions during the last years between right holders and device manufacturers. Indeed, as far as Italy is concerned, the law implementing the EU Directive 2001/29/EC had already allowed in 2003 private copies of copyright protected works without the consent of the…

The Italian Government is in the process of implementing the so called Audiovisual Media Services EU Directive (“AVMSD”) which was merely meant to amend the Television Without Frontiers EU Directive to extend its scope to new technologies (e.g. on-demand audiovisual media services, satellite TV etc.). However, the law proposal submitted by…