Life is becoming more and more difficult for gaming and gambling providers in Italy. Indeed, the Parliament has recently approved a law prescribing the implementation of an action plan against unlawful gaming especially in the online sector. This measure follows the coming into force of a law introducing criminal sanctions up to 3 years…
The Italian Senate has just passed a new law that further regulates the always closer launch of the so called "Videolottery" (VLT) i.e. video terminals to be placed in gaming halls and that will randomly generate winning combinations.
The new law prescribes that - up to the expire of the current network licenses concerning…

As part of a project aimed at fostering the development and internationalisation of the companies, the Italian Parliament has recently passed a law prescribing, among others, the corporate liability for copyright related crimes. Indeed, Italian copyright law already prescribed criminal sanctions for the provision to the public on communications networks of copyright protected…

The Italian gaming market will see considerable gaming law changes within the next 6 to 12 months. The coming into force of laws introducing new types of games and the so called videolotteries (VLT) seems to have considerably increased the potentialities of the Italian online and offline gaming market.