For those that missed the articles of October 2014, here is what I have been discussing about!
Giulio Coraggio
I have been invited to give a presentation about the Internet of Things legal issues affecting connected cars as part of the Connected Automobiles 2014 conference on the 12th of November in Turin. The title of my session is Privacy and regulations: state-of-the-art and future issues, but I will cover most of the issues addressed…
As previously mentioned, I attended this week the Web Summit in Dublin focusing in particular to the section dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT) from which I was able to gain very interesting insights on legal issues affecting the Internet of Things.
Gucci obtained a partial victory against Guess before the Milan Court of Appeal for unfair competition since the court held that Guess copied a number of products of the well-known fashion house of Florence.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) drafted a new page of copyright-related Internet liability rules holding that the embedding of a video from a videosharing platform on the different site without the consent from the right holder is not a copyright breach.
Internet liability principles are increasingly tested with the growth of social media. And we receive a large number of requests of advice from clients running a fan page, a group or a list on social networks dedicated to either their company trademark/brand or to one of their major products in relation to the liability for the contents published on such fan pages.
I am very glad to inform you that - also thanks to your support - I will be running a panel discussion at the Web Summit 2014 in Dublin.
Internet of Things technologies are already all around us and with a market that is expected to reach a value of more than $ 14.4 trillion over the next decade with 50 billion connected devices by 2020, the question is whether ad hoc regulations are necessary to govern the Internet of Things sector.
The Italian Data Protection Authority issued regulations introducing new relevant data protection obligations for banks in the processing of customers' personal data by their employees aimed at monitoring the transfer of personal data by banks and at tracking the activities performed by bank's employees on such data.
Gaming laws in Italy for sportsbetting are increasingly trying to accomodate operators' needs. The entrance of new major operators in the Italian sportsbetting market and the liberalization of gaming laws that for a decade had been very restrictive are now followed by further measures boosting the sportsbetting liberalization expected to increase the product offering in the market.